Police officials in Rochester “downplayed” the police department’s March interaction with Daniel Prude and, over the course of months, went back and forth about their handling of the case out of apparent fear of backlash, according to recently released documents and the city's mayor. On Monday, Warren’s office released 325 pages of documents pertaining to the March 2020 death of 41-year-old Prude. The documents show that police officials sought to deny a request made by the attorney of Joe Prude, Daniel Prude's brother, to release the body-camera footage from the arrest. The video was ultimately released to Prude’s family, who made it public at the beginning of September. In an unsent draft of that email, Warren excoriated Singletary for having “grossly underplayed” Prude’s death by first describing it to her as a drug overdose.

Source: Fox News September 16, 2020 15:45 UTC