I'm going to quote from this article, "Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude’s Death Quiet" at length: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/

I'm going to quote from this article, "Documents Reveal How the Police Kept Daniel Prude’s Death Quiet" at length: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/rochester-police-daniel-prude.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/nyregion/rochester-police... "The June 4 exchange was contained in a mass of city documents released on Monday that show how the police chief, La’Ron Singletary, and other prominent Rochester officials did everything in their power to keep the troubling videos of the incident out of public view, and to prevent damaging fallout from Mr. Prude’s death. The dozens of emails, police reports and internal reviews reveal an array of delay tactics — from citing hospital privacy laws to blaming an overworked employee’s backlog in processing videos — used in that mission. The documents show how the police attempted to frame the narrative in the earliest hours, playing up Mr. Prude’s potential for danger and glossing over the tactics of the officers who pinned him, naked and hooded, to the ground before he stopped breathing. In a police report on the confrontation, marking a box for “victim type,” an officer on the scene listed Mr. Prude — who the police believed had broken a store window that night — simply as an “individual.” But another officer circled the word in red and scribbled a note. “Make him a suspect,” it read."