Daniel Prude: video released of police using ‘spit hood’ on black man who died of asphyxiation

Footage released by the family of Daniel Prude shows a group of police officers placing a hood over the unarmed black man’s head and then pressing his face into the pavement for two minutes, after he was found running naked through the streets of a western city in New York state. Subscribe to Guardian News on YouTube ► Prude died on 30 March after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with police in Rochester. His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports they obtained through a public records request. Prude was from Chicago and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his family. Police responded after Joe Prude called 911 to report that his brother had left his house and was experiencing mental health issues Daniel Prude: New York police used ‘spit hood’ on Black man who died of asphyxiation ►