Rochester police commanders urged city officials to hold off on publicly releasing body camera footage of Daniel Prude's suffocation death because they feared blowback if the video came out during George Floyd protests, newly released emails show.
Simmons forwarded both emails to Singletary with his message advising the chief to have the Prude family lawyer's public records request squashed, according to the documents released Monday. Simmons suggested that the city deny the request because the case was still under investigation by the state attorney general's office.
Warren maintains that she did not see the body camera footage until city lawyers played it for her on Aug. 4 and that Singletary initially misled her about the circumstances of Prude's death. In an unsent draft of that email, Warren excoriated Singletary for having “grossly underplayed” Prude's death by first describing it to her a drug overdose. In the draft, prepared with Deputy Mayor James Smith's help, Warren said she strongly believed Vaughn should be fired and that she would have asked for Vaughn's termination in March, had she seen the footage then.
A cursory management review that Smith conducted on the city's handling of Prude's death found that stalling the release of the body camera video because of concerns about optics cost did “considerable damage” to work the city has done to improve relations between the police and the public.
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