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The bodycam footage
Disturbing bodycam footage of the incident, which was provided to CNN by attorneys for Prude, compiles multiple officers' body cameras and has been edited together to show different angles of the incident.
The video begins at 3:16 a.m. with Prude naked on a wet street as a light snow falls.
An officer exits his patrol car, approaches Prude while asking him six times to get on the ground as the officer points a Taser at him. Prude complies and is asked to put his hands behind his back, which he quickly does. The officer then cuffs him as Prude says "yes, sir" several times.
Several other officers arrive on scene and one appears to identify Prude by name.
While handcuffed, Prude repeats the phrase "in Jesus Christ I pray, amen." He also makes various remarks about getting his money to take a plane, and he asks for the officers' guns and that they stay away from him.
Three minutes after the incident begins, one officer puts a spit sock -- which is designed to keep a person from spitting or biting -- over Prude's head. He rolls around on the ground yelling various things.
Prude appears to try to stand at approximately 3:20 a.m., and three officers move in to restrain him and hold him to the ground. Police say Prude is spitting and appears to have vomited. Three minutes and 10 seconds after the restraint, an officer says "he started throwing up, now it looks like he doesn't even have chest compressions."
They call in the EMT to help who instructs an officer to roll Prude over and perform chest compressions, which they do.
Prude appears non-responsive and is loaded into an ambulance at 3:27 a.m., 11 minutes after the first officer arrived on scene.
In the autopsy report, medical officials cite acute myocarditis and a history of severe respiratory acidosis. They stated Prude also has a clinical history of agitation and combative behavior, as well as a clinical history of suicidal ideation and possible auditory hallucinations and paranoia.
http://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/us/rochester-police-daniel-prude-death/index.html
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