A black man who ran naked through the streets died of asphyxiation after New York State police put a hood over his head and pressed his face into the footpath, according to video released by the man's family.
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Also released on Wednesday, grainy footage showing Monday's fatal shooting of black man Dijon Kizzee by LA sheriff's deputies after he was stopped on a bicycle, fails to confirm the allegation he "made a motion" for a gun.
Daniel Prude died on March 30 after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter with officers in Rochester, NY.
His death received no public attention until Wednesday, when his family held a news conference and released police body camera video and written reports obtained through request.
"I placed a phone call for my brother to get help. Not for my brother to get lynched," Prude's brother, Joe Prude, said.
"How did you see him and not directly say, 'The man is defenseless, buck naked on the ground. He's cuffed up already. Come on.' How many more brothers gotta die for society to understand that this needs to stop?"
The video shows Prude complying when police ask him to get on the ground and put his hands behind his back.
He is agitated and shouting as he sits on the footpath handcuffed for a few moments as a light snow falls. "Give me your gun, I need it," he shouts.
Then, they put a white "spit hood" over his head, a device intended to protect officers from saliva. At the time, New York was in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.
Prude demands they remove it.
Then the officers slam his head into the street. One, who is white, holds his head against the ground with both hands, saying "calm down" and "stop spitting". Another places a knee on his back.
"Trying to kill me!" Prude says, his voice becoming muffled and anguished under the hood.
His head was held down for just over two minutes, the video shows.
The officers then remove the hood and his handcuffs and medics can then be seen performing CPR before he's loaded into an ambulance.
A medical examiner concluded Prude's death was a homicide caused by "complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint".
The report lists excited delirium and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or PCP, as contributing factors.
Rochester police officers took Prude into custody for a mental health evaluation about eight hours before the encounter that led to his death.
State Attorney General Letitia James says her investigation of the incident is continuing.
Meanwhile, the video showing Kizzee's shooting on Monday afternoon in South Los Angeles and obtained by the Los Angeles Times, reveals the 29-year-old scuffling with a deputy on a footpth.
He broke free, stumbled and fell to the ground and two deputies opened fire.
Police have said a gun fell out when Kizzee dropped a jacket as he fell to the ground and he "made a motion" for the weapon - prompting deputies to open fire.
But the video does not confirm whether that happened because a fence obstructs the view at that period in the sequence of events.
Australian Associated Press
