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Rochester, N.Y. After jurors in the murder trial of Kelvin Vickers heard powerful testimony Thursday from RPD officer Sino Seng, the man who was seriously inj
Daniel Prude and George Floyd died less than two months apart after encounters with police officers in two different American cities. Rochester police officers pinned Prude, naked and handcuffed, to the ground on a frigid street on March 23, 2020. Prude lost oxygen to his brain and died a week later. Floyd died that May while Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin restrained Floyd, who was handcuffed. Chauvin pressed his knee forcefully on Floyd's neck for more than nine minutes. Those moments between the Black men and the white police officers were captured on video, triggering a ...
Protesters stand outside of the Public Safety Building on Exchange Boulevard on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2020. A medical expert called by state prosecutors to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of Daniel Prude told jurors that he believed Prude died of a sudden cardiac arrest, and that none of the police officers who arrested him caused his heart to fail. The testimony of Dr. Gary Vilke, an emergency room doctor in southern California, flew in the face of the findings of the Monroe County medical examiner, who had determined that Prude was suffocated by officers. Speci...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Rochester police officers whose physical restraint of Daniel Prude may have caused his death will not face criminal charges, Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday. Clearly upset at a news conference at Aenon Missionary Baptist Church in Rochester, James said that a grand jury had decided the officers committed no crimes in Prude's death. During her announcement, James placed Prude's death as one flashpoint in a history of racist and deadly intersections with police and Black men and women. "There needs to be systematic change in the criminal just...
Dr. Gary Vilke has been an expert in cases involving deaths in police custody, casting doubt on restraint-related asphyxia as cause of death.