This was mentioned briefly in the Kenosha thread ... but here was a murder of a Black man that was at least as bad as the George Floyd murder.
The victim's name was Daniel Prude, and the event happened in Rochester NY in March.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/rochester-mayor-suspension-officers-daniel-prudeThe victim had some mental health issues and his brother called 9-1-1 seeking help. But when the cops got there, they instead brutalized Prude -- even though he was unarmed, he posed no threat, and he did what the cops told him to do.
They put a hood on him, slammed his head into the street and held his head against the pavement, ignoring his pleas for help. The video recording shows the cops mocking him.
After he died, the department tried to cover it up.
They claimed he died of a drug overdose because PCP was in his system -- even though the medical examiner classified Prude's death a "homicide by complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint." The PCP was identified as a "contributing factor," but he obviously would be alive today if he hadn't been brutalized.
The only reason anybody ever found out what really happened was that Prude's family made a Freedom of Information Law request for the recording of the incident.
Otherwise, like so many other examples of brutality, we never would have known.
All these months later, the Rochester mayor finally suspended the officers -- with pay. The union is threatening to sue.
The mayor acknowledged that Prude would have been treated differently by officers if he was white.
"It's the way that the system works," she said. "Racism is alive and well in every system in America."
Of course. I mean, we all saw the way the murderous, gun-toting, white vigilante was totally ignored by the Kenosha police even though witnesses were screaming that he had just killed somebody.
Not surprisingly, our national "leader" has not condemned this, talked about it at all or offered condolences to Prude's family. To the best of my knowledge, neither has Biden.
Avoidable. Racist. Corrupt. And very sad.
Black Lives Matter.