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The settlement caps two years of litigation. The fatal arrest of Daniel Prude by Rochester police in 2020 sparked protests nationwide.

Prude died a week after his arrest by Rochester police. Lawyers representing the plaintiffs will receive $4 million of the total.

Unarmed black man Daniel Prude, 41, suffocated in March 2020 after being restrained with a spit-hood over his head and officers' pressing on his back in Rochesters, New York.

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...

  Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death, but the city of Rochester and the officers could still be held accountable. Disciplinary charges are still possible against the officers, lawyers for Prude's estate have filed a civil lawsuit and a federal civil rights action also is possible. And, significantly, more than a year after the death of the 41-year-old Black man, the case remains a rallying cry for police reform in the city by Lake Ontario, and beyond. "By no means is it over," Mikey...