Rochester officials have agreed to pay $12 million to the children of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died after police held him down until he stopped breathing on a snowy street in the upstate New York city.

“Excited delirium” was listed on the autopsy reports for Elijah McClain and Daniel Prude, both of whom died after being restrained by police officers. The defense for former officer Derek Chauvin, who killed George Floyd, also invoked the term in court arguments. But the authors of a new study say “excited delirium” is not a valid medical diagnosis, and therefore...

Rochester’s ex-police chief La’Ron Singletary will receive $75,000 from the City of Rochester after he sued the city for wrongful termination last year, alleging that former Mayor Lovely Warren fired him for refusing to lie during an investigation into the death of Daniel Prude

The former Rochester police chief who was fired over his department’s handling of last year’s suffocation death of Daniel Prude announced Thursday he is running for Congress. La’Ron Singletary, who recently changed his registration from Democrat to Republican, is seeking to unseat two-term Democrat Joe Morelle in New York’s 25th Congressional District, which includes Rochester. “I stand before you...

Newly released grand jury transcripts shed more light on why police officers who restrained Daniel Prude avoided criminal charges in his death.

Newly released transcripts show that prosecutors overseeing a grand jury investigation into the death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, undercut the case for criminal charges with testimony from a medical expert who said police officers who held Prude to the ground didn’t do anything wrong

A grand jury investigating the police suffocation death of Daniel Prude last year in Rochester, New York, voted 15-5 not to indict the three officers who restrained him, according to transcripts of the proceedings released Friday. Prosecutors from the state attorney general’s office had asked the grand jury to consider a criminally negligent homicide charge for the officers, who...

An investigation into the official response to Daniel Prude’s police suffocation death last year in Rochester, New York, is faulting the city’s mayor and former police chief for keeping critical details of the case secret for months and lying to the public about what they knew

Attorneys for the five children of Chicago resident Daniel Prude have announced a federal lawsuit against the city of Rochester, New York, alleging wrongful death and civil rights violations.

A grand jury’s decision not to indict officers involved in a fatal encounter with an unarmed Black man illustrates a hard reality for a special unit created to investigate deaths at the hands of police: Few of the probes overseen by New York’s attorney general have led to charges against officers.