BLACK PEOPLE KILLED BY POLICE!!! LINKS TO THREADS INSIDE.
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this is very recent and news is still coming out on this. I found out about it on Facebook thru local reporter Isiah Carey (black dude where the bug flew in his mouth). It happened May 8 at around 2:00 AM during a traffic stop.
Now this guy was well known in the Houston church community and even had one of his albums posted here on BGOL a few years ago:
The story from Carey's website is below...
www.isiahfactor.com
NOTE: ADRIAN’S FAMILY IS VERY UPSET SAYING THEY WANT ANSWERS AND THEY DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO HIM. FRIENDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA DESCRIBED HIM AS A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN AND THE ALLEGATIONS FROM THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT JUST DON’T FIT HIS CHARACTER. THE FOLLOWING IS THE PRESS RELEASE FROM HPD:
Houston police are investigating the fatal shooting of a suspect by an HPD officer at 11710 North Freeway (North Interstate Highway 45) service road about 1:30 a.m. today (May 8).
The deceased male is identified as Adrian Dewand Medearis, 48.
Officer J. Ramos, who discharged his duty weapon in the incident, was not injured. Officer Ramos is assigned to the Traffic Enforcement Division and was sworn in as an officer in May of 2013.
HPD Special Investigations Unit Sergeant R. Bass and Officers M. Millington, L. Lopez, S. Martinez and J. Hartnett reported:
Officer Ramos, of the DWI Task Force, conducted a traffic stop of a black BMW at the above address. The officer made contact with the driver (later identified as Medearis) and conducted a DWI investigation. When Officer Ramos attempted to place Medearis under arrest, a physical altercation ensued. During the confrontation, Medearis was able to gain possession of Officer Ramos’ Conducted Energy Device (Taser) and pointed it at him. Officer Ramos drew his duty weapon, in fear of serious bodily injury or death, and fired multiple times, striking Medearis.
Medearis was provided first aid at the scene and then transported by ambulance to HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.
As is customary when an officer discharges a weapon in the city limits, the incident is being investigated by the HPD Special Investigations Unit, the Internal Affairs Division and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
Now this guy was well known in the Houston church community and even had one of his albums posted here on BGOL a few years ago:
The story from Carey's website is below...
ADRIAN’S FAMILY WANTS ANSWERS!
NOTE: ADRIAN’S FAMILY IS VERY UPSET SAYING THEY WANT ANSWERS AND THEY DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO HIM. FRIENDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA DESCRIBED HIM AS A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN AND THE ALLEGATIO…
www.isiahfactor.com
NOTE: ADRIAN’S FAMILY IS VERY UPSET SAYING THEY WANT ANSWERS AND THEY DEMAND TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO HIM. FRIENDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA DESCRIBED HIM AS A DEVOUT CHRISTIAN AND THE ALLEGATIONS FROM THE HOUSTON POLICE DEPARTMENT JUST DON’T FIT HIS CHARACTER. THE FOLLOWING IS THE PRESS RELEASE FROM HPD:
Houston police are investigating the fatal shooting of a suspect by an HPD officer at 11710 North Freeway (North Interstate Highway 45) service road about 1:30 a.m. today (May 8).
The deceased male is identified as Adrian Dewand Medearis, 48.
Officer J. Ramos, who discharged his duty weapon in the incident, was not injured. Officer Ramos is assigned to the Traffic Enforcement Division and was sworn in as an officer in May of 2013.
HPD Special Investigations Unit Sergeant R. Bass and Officers M. Millington, L. Lopez, S. Martinez and J. Hartnett reported:
Officer Ramos, of the DWI Task Force, conducted a traffic stop of a black BMW at the above address. The officer made contact with the driver (later identified as Medearis) and conducted a DWI investigation. When Officer Ramos attempted to place Medearis under arrest, a physical altercation ensued. During the confrontation, Medearis was able to gain possession of Officer Ramos’ Conducted Energy Device (Taser) and pointed it at him. Officer Ramos drew his duty weapon, in fear of serious bodily injury or death, and fired multiple times, striking Medearis.
Medearis was provided first aid at the scene and then transported by ambulance to HCA Houston Healthcare Northwest Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.
As is customary when an officer discharges a weapon in the city limits, the incident is being investigated by the HPD Special Investigations Unit, the Internal Affairs Division and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – The union representing Louisville Metro Police officers lashed out at a local judge Friday for releasing from jail an inmate who allegedly shot a police officer earlier this month, calling the action “a slap in the face to everyone wearing a badge.”
But an attorney for Kenneth Walker claims police conducted an improper raid, which led to officers shooting an innocent woman eight times, killing her. The woman, 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, was a certified EMT working at two local hospitals.
Defense attorney Rob Eggert said police burst in Taylor's home without announcing their presence and fired at least 22 times, with bullets going into neighboring apartments, and “it was incredible that Mrs. Taylor was the only one killed.”
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Had Breonna Taylor been killed by anyone except police, the person or persons responsible for her death would have been charged with a homicide,” Eggert said in a court document, also alleging Walker is a “victim of police misconduct.”
Taylor’s family says neither Walker nor Taylor was involved in drugs and believe police were looking for someone else.
“These are two good kids,” said Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt. “This is incompetent police work. My niece lost her life over this.”
Austin said LMPD has not given the family any answers as to what happened.
An attorney representing the family, Sam Aguiar, said police were actually looking for someone else and other officers had picked the suspect up at his home in a separate raid shortly before the shooting.
“Something went terribly wrong,” he said. “This was clearly a botched execution of a warrant.”
In an email, Chief Steve Conrad said he could not talk about the "incident that resulted in Ms. Taylor's death" because there is a pending Public Integrity investigation.
But he also criticized the release of Walker:
“I certainly understand the need to make sure we are releasing those people who don’t pose a risk to our community from the jail, especially as we face the outbreak of COVID-19. However, it’s hard for me to see how a man accused of shooting a police officer falls into that low-risk category and I am very frustrated by Mr. Walker’s release to home incarceration.
Prosecutors argued to the judge that Eggert's "version" of events are "irrelevant."
"One person is dead, and one person was almost killed due to Mr. Walker's actions," Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Ebert Haegele argued in a court motion.
Walker, 27, was charged with attempted murder of a police officer after he shot Sgt. John Mattingly in the leg as police were serving a search warrant during a narcotics investigation at an apartment on Springfield Drive at 1 a.m. on March 13, police have said.
A female suspect was shot and killed after three LMPD officers returned fire, Chief Steve Conrad has said.
On Thursday, Jefferson Circuit Court Judge Olu Stevens lowered Walker’s bond from $250,000 cash to home incarceration.
Courts have been mostly closed and there is no document in online court records explaining Stevens' rationale for changing the bond.
The move prompted outrage from the police union.
“Not only is he a threat to the men and women of law enforcement, but he also poses a significant danger to the community we protect!” River City FOP president Ryan Nichols wrote in a Facebook Post Friday. “Home incarceration was not designed for the most violent offenders!” “I call on the public to condemn the actions of Judge Olu Stevens.”
The FOP for Metro Corrections also condemned Stevens' actions in a post, noting that the inmate population is as low as it has been since the 1990s.
"So an overcrowded jail did not figure into Judge Steven's decision to release an alleged, attempted cop killer back into the community without even so much as requiring bail," according to the post. "Our community, which is full of voters, needs to carefully examine decisions such as these made by our public officials".
But Walker’s attorney, Eggert, claims police did not announce themselves as they exploded through the door of the apartment around 1 a.m., while the couple was sleeping.
Eggert acknowledges that Walker fired a shot, hitting Sgt. Mattingly in the leg, but claims Walker did not know he was shooting at police, according to a motion filed in court.
Police then returned fire, killing Taylor, Eggert wrote.
There were no drugs found in the home, Eggert said.
And Walker was not the target of the search warrant and if he had known police were outside, he would have let them in, Eggert said in the motion.
Eggert declined to comment for this article.
Police have said they repeatedly knocked on the door and announced their presence but were eventually forced to bust through a door, where they were met with gunfire.
Mattingly was shot in the leg and taken to University of Louisville Hospital, where he underwent surgery.
A woman who lives next door said she woke up to the sound of gunshots and Walker yelling for help, according to an affidavit filed in court records. The woman said she never heard police announce themselves.
“All she heard was a ram (breaking through the door) and gunfire,” the unidentified neighbor said.
In asking for a lower bond, Eggert said Walker played football at Valley High School, attended Western Kentucky University and has only a driving while intoxicated conviction on his criminal record.
Bianca Austin, Taylor’s aunt, said Walker had just accepted a job to work at UPS.
“These two were not drug dealers,” she said. “It just don’t make sense to us at all.”
Haegele, the prosecutor, wrote in a motion to Stevens that the judge shouldn't take the affidavits and other arguments about a bad raid into consideration.
"Disputed facts will be for the jury to decide," he wrote.
Eggert wrote that Walker “wishes to exonerate himself. His girlfriend was killed in a hail of police bullets while naked and he himself simply acted to try to protect himself.”
Police have said there is no body camera footage of the shooting because the officers involved were members of the department’s Criminal Interdiction division, who do not wear body cameras.
The officers involved in the shooting, including Det. Myles Cosgrove and Det. Brent Hankison, have been placed on administrative reassignment.
Attorneys claim LMPD officers killed 26-year-old EMT in 'botched' police raid
"Had Breonna Taylor been killed by anyone except police, the person or persons responsible for her death would have been charged with a homicide," defense attorney Rob Eggert said in
Police kill black man in HOUSTON during traffic stop... RIH Adrian Medearis
this is very recent and news is still coming out on this. I found out about it on Facebook thru local reporter Isiah Carey (black dude where the bug flew in his mouth). It happened May 8 at around 2:00 AM during a traffic stop. Now this guy was well known in the Houston church community and...
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Police officer: It's 'unfortunate' not all Black people were killed by coronavirus
On Wednesday, The Olympian reported that a police officer in Kaplan, Louisiana was terminated after a racist social media comment.During a live stream of a COVID-19 press conference by Gov. John Bel Edwards, another commenter wrote, "virus that was created to kill all the BLACKS is death." In...
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Calling for the arrests of the 4 police officers responsible for the death of Minneapolis man #GeorgeFloyd. #MorningJoe
This Isn’t a Few Bad Apples. The Police Are Rotten to the Core.
What the last few weeks, and the last three days, have made clear is that police reform is useless, most certainly as a policy and probably even as a thought exercise.
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More than 730,000 sign petition to reopen investigation of Colorado police in Elijah McClain’s death
Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old black man, was walking home when Aurora police put him in a chokehold and forced him on the ground for 15 minutes. Paramedics then injected him with the sedative ketamine. McClain apparently suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died once taken off life support Aug. 30
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Screenshot from Change.org
More than 730,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Aurora officials to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain — a 23-year-old unarmed black man who died in August following an encounter with Aurora police.
The petition calls on Adams County District Attorney Dave Young, along with Mayor Mike Coffman and the Aurora Police Department, to “bring justice for Elijah,” by conducting “a more in-depth” investigation and removing the officers involved from duty.
“We are aware of the petition,” Michael Bryant, spokesperson for the city of Aurora, told Colorado Politics in a phone interview. “But there has not been a public response to that petition yet.”
The Aurora police department also is aware of the petition, the department's spokesman, Officer Matthew Longshore, said.
"We're always reviewing our policies and procedures to see if there's any changes that need to be made," he said. "We're taking this petition into consideration, but we haven't made any determinations at this point."
Both Bryant and Longshore said that the decision to reopen the investigation would have to come from Young's office.
"I don't open up investigations based on petitions," Young told Colorado Politics in a phone interview late Monday afternoon. "Obviously, if there is new evidence to look at, I will look at the evidence in any case.
"But no," he said, "I'm not going to open up an investigation because people are signing a petition."
In November, Young, the 17th Judicial District Attorney, ruled that criminal charges would not be pressed against officers involved in the detention and arrest of McClain because there was no indisputable evidence that an officer used “unjustified” force on McClain.
In February, the Aurora Police Department said force applied during the encounter was consistent with training as determined by a Force Review Board.
McClain encountered police on Aug. 24 while on his way home from buying four cans of Brisk tea at a gas station in Aurora.
Officers put McClain, a Denver native and massage therapist in Aurora, in a chokehold and forced him on the ground for 15 minutes, where he was then injected with the sedative ketamine, according to a Sentinel Colorado report of the encounter. McClain apparently suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died once taken off life support Aug. 30.
The recent death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in custody of white Minneapolis police officers, has sparked outrage against police brutality across the country and around the world, including in Aurora. His death appears to have also strengthened ongoing calls for justice around McClain’s death, as his name can be heard at the ongoing protests happening in Denver and beyond.
At 1:30 p.m. Monday, the online petition had garnered nearly 700,000 signatures since it was started by Piper Rundell less than a week ago. The goal of the petition, which was created on Change.org, is to reach one million signatures.
Aurora City Manager Jim Twombly in February announced that he would be initiating a Critical Incident Review to further examine how Aurora police and fire departments responded in the McClain case.
“That is for an outside, independent review of the details of the case and the policies and procedures that were in place, and whether there were any recommended changes that need to come from that,” Bryant said.
Twombly also said in February that he was launching an audit of APD’s body-worn cameras to "take a critical look at our policies, how well APD complies with policies, laws and best practices related to the use of body-worn cameras, as well as the equipment itself."
In February, Aurora City Council also commissioned a police task force to study police controversies and, if needed, make recommendations around policy changes and establishing civilian oversight, Bryant told Colorado Politics.
The creation of that committee was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, Bryant said, but Coffman requested Aurora City Council hold a special council meeting at 6 p.m. on June 15 in which members are expected to be named.
The task force comes in the wake of multiple high-profile cases involving Aurora police.
The American Civil Liberties Union and others have filed several lawsuits over the years against the city of Aurora over officer-involved shootings, and the city has paid out millions of dollars as a result.
“There is a pattern here that is disturbing,” Denise Maes, public policy director of ACLU Colorado, said in November during a heated town hall discussion about Aurora policing.
The organization, alongside others, has long advocated for an independent authority to monitor police shootings, and Maes said she was “not sure why the city of Aurora has resisted.”
Editor's note: This story has been updated with the response from Dave Young, the 17th Judicial District Attorney.
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- By ALAYNA ALVAREZ Colorado Politics
- Jun 8, 2020 Updated 1 min ago
Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old black man, was walking home when Aurora police put him in a chokehold and forced him on the ground for 15 minutes. Paramedics then injected him with the sedative ketamine. McClain apparently suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died once taken off life support Aug. 30
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Screenshot from Change.org
More than 730,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Aurora officials to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain — a 23-year-old unarmed black man who died in August following an encounter with Aurora police.
The petition calls on Adams County District Attorney Dave Young, along with Mayor Mike Coffman and the Aurora Police Department, to “bring justice for Elijah,” by conducting “a more in-depth” investigation and removing the officers involved from duty.
“We are aware of the petition,” Michael Bryant, spokesperson for the city of Aurora, told Colorado Politics in a phone interview. “But there has not been a public response to that petition yet.”
The Aurora police department also is aware of the petition, the department's spokesman, Officer Matthew Longshore, said.
"We're always reviewing our policies and procedures to see if there's any changes that need to be made," he said. "We're taking this petition into consideration, but we haven't made any determinations at this point."
Both Bryant and Longshore said that the decision to reopen the investigation would have to come from Young's office.
"I don't open up investigations based on petitions," Young told Colorado Politics in a phone interview late Monday afternoon. "Obviously, if there is new evidence to look at, I will look at the evidence in any case.
"But no," he said, "I'm not going to open up an investigation because people are signing a petition."
In November, Young, the 17th Judicial District Attorney, ruled that criminal charges would not be pressed against officers involved in the detention and arrest of McClain because there was no indisputable evidence that an officer used “unjustified” force on McClain.
In February, the Aurora Police Department said force applied during the encounter was consistent with training as determined by a Force Review Board.
McClain encountered police on Aug. 24 while on his way home from buying four cans of Brisk tea at a gas station in Aurora.
Officers put McClain, a Denver native and massage therapist in Aurora, in a chokehold and forced him on the ground for 15 minutes, where he was then injected with the sedative ketamine, according to a Sentinel Colorado report of the encounter. McClain apparently suffered a heart attack, fell into a coma and died once taken off life support Aug. 30.
The recent death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in custody of white Minneapolis police officers, has sparked outrage against police brutality across the country and around the world, including in Aurora. His death appears to have also strengthened ongoing calls for justice around McClain’s death, as his name can be heard at the ongoing protests happening in Denver and beyond.
At 1:30 p.m. Monday, the online petition had garnered nearly 700,000 signatures since it was started by Piper Rundell less than a week ago. The goal of the petition, which was created on Change.org, is to reach one million signatures.
Aurora City Manager Jim Twombly in February announced that he would be initiating a Critical Incident Review to further examine how Aurora police and fire departments responded in the McClain case.
“That is for an outside, independent review of the details of the case and the policies and procedures that were in place, and whether there were any recommended changes that need to come from that,” Bryant said.
Twombly also said in February that he was launching an audit of APD’s body-worn cameras to "take a critical look at our policies, how well APD complies with policies, laws and best practices related to the use of body-worn cameras, as well as the equipment itself."
In February, Aurora City Council also commissioned a police task force to study police controversies and, if needed, make recommendations around policy changes and establishing civilian oversight, Bryant told Colorado Politics.
The creation of that committee was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, Bryant said, but Coffman requested Aurora City Council hold a special council meeting at 6 p.m. on June 15 in which members are expected to be named.
The task force comes in the wake of multiple high-profile cases involving Aurora police.
The American Civil Liberties Union and others have filed several lawsuits over the years against the city of Aurora over officer-involved shootings, and the city has paid out millions of dollars as a result.
“There is a pattern here that is disturbing,” Denise Maes, public policy director of ACLU Colorado, said in November during a heated town hall discussion about Aurora policing.
The organization, alongside others, has long advocated for an independent authority to monitor police shootings, and Maes said she was “not sure why the city of Aurora has resisted.”
Editor's note: This story has been updated with the response from Dave Young, the 17th Judicial District Attorney.
More than a million sign petition to reopen investigation of Aurora police involvement in Elijah McClain’s death
More than a million people have signed an online petition calling for Aurora officials to reopen the investigation into the death of Elijah McClain — a 23-year-old unarmed black man
The murder of Elijah McClain. (FTP)
More than 730,000 sign petition to reopen investigation of Colorado police in Elijah McClain’s death By ALAYNA ALVAREZ Colorado Politics Jun 8, 2020 Updated 1 min ago...
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Police killed more than 100 unarmed black people in 2015 — Mapping Police Violence
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Georgia state trooper charged with murder of Black man over ‘busted tail light’
By Tim Balk New York Daily News | Aug 14, 2020 at 6:42 PM State trooper Jacob Gordon Thompson was arrested and charged with murder. ((Georgia Department of Public Safety via AP)) A white, now-fired Georgia state trooper was charged with murder on...
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this needs to be ANOTHER sticky!!!!!
Serious question....is there a defensive technique a normal person could use to protect them selves against the Police....I know yea they have guns and are better fit then the average person....but they make killing us look so easy...they make it look so easy....... like a Boa Constrictor suffocating his prey. I mean they ain't supermen but it seems like they are when you watch these videos and they slowly do the kill without conscience. Might be a question for a former policemen.
7 Rochester police officers suspended over Daniel Prude's death, mayor says | CNN
Seven police officers in Rochester, New York, involved in the March arrest of a Black man who was pinned to the ground and later died have been suspended, the city's mayor announced.
Seven police officers in Rochester, New York, involved in the March arrest of a Black man who was pinned to the ground and later died have been suspended, the city's mayor announced.
"Mr. (Daniel) Prude lost his life in our city. He lost his life because of the actions of our police officers," Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said Thursday in a news conference.
The suspensions come a day after attorneys for Prude's family released police bodycam video that shows officers covering the man's head with a "spit sock" and holding him on the ground in a prone position before he stopped breathing.
Warren said some of the officers who were suspended appear on the body camera footage and others "had a duty to stop what was happening." They are being suspended with pay "against the advice of council," she said.
CNN has reached out to the Rochester Police Locust Club, the union representing the city officers, for comment about the suspensions.
The mayor told reporters on Thursday that she had been misled by the city's police chief, who she said led her to believe the man died in police custody of an overdose. She saw the body camera footage for the first time nearly a month ago, Warren said.
Prude was failed by many officials before and during the March 23 incident, the mayor said. He would have been treated different if he was White, she said.
"Institutional structural racism led to Daniel Prude's death. I won't deny it. I stand before it and I call for justice upon it," Warren said.
Prude's daughter, Tashyra Prude, is calling for the officers' firing and wants them to be prosecuted over her father's death.
"They should be arrested and tried as the killers that they are," Tashyra Prude told CNN's Erica Hill on Thursday.
'How many more brothers got to die?,' brother says
Prude, 41, was having a mental health episode on March 23 when his brother Joe called the Rochester Police Department for help, the family said at a press conference Wednesday.
The video provided by attorneys shows officers handcuff Prude, who was naked, in the middle of a snowy wet street, and place a covering over his head.
Several minutes later, EMTs arrive and begin to perform chest compressions, the video shows. He is then placed on a gurney and into an ambulance.
When Prude arrived at the hospital, he was brain dead, his brother said. He died a week later.
His death was ruled a homicide by the Monroe County Medical examiner, according to a copy of the autopsy report obtained by lawyers for his family. The report cites complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint as a finding. The report also cites excited delirium and acute PCP intoxication as causes of death.
In this image taken from police body camera video provided by Roth and Roth LLP, a Rochester police officer puts a hood over the head of Daniel Prude, on March 23, 2020, in Rochester, NY.
The officers involved were not initially suspended and did not receive any disciplinary action. The union representing Rochester police officers had said in a statement to CNN that they have "concerns" about the incident and are working to gather more information.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Joe Prude said police had killed a defenseless Black man and called his brother's death "cold-blooded murder." Elliot Shields, one of the Prude family lawyers, said attorneys are in the preliminary stages of filing a wrongful death suit.
Family members connected his March death -- two months before George Floyd's death in similar circumstances -- to the movement pushing back against police violence toward Black people.
"How many more brothers got to die for society to understand that this needs to stop," Joe Prude said. "And I can't even share with y'all the pain that I'm feeling, and my family is going through as well."
His death also raises questions about how police respond to someone in the midst of a mental health crisis. Police are often the first to respond to reports of a person acting erratically, and they occasionally use police tactics or force in their response. The Washington Post's database of police shootings since 2015, for example, indicates that about 22% of those shot and killed by police reported signs of mental illness.
After the family's press conference, protesters gathered outside the Public Safety Building in downtown Rochester, according to CNN affiliate WHAM.
Organizers from the group Free the People Roc, a Black Lives Matter group, named three officers they say were involved in the incident. CNN is working to confirm their identities and is not naming them at this time.
Family members are calling for the officers to be fired and arrested.
What bodycam footage and police reports show
Daniel Prude's family speaks at a press conference on Wednesday.
Attorneys for Prude's family provided CNN with edited video that compiles multiple officers' body cameras. They also provided several police documents describing the incident.
The incident began after Joe Prude and several other people called police. Joe Prude told police that his brother had made suicidal threats earlier in the day and had been taken into custody on a Mental Health Arrest, or MHA.
Additionally, a witness took a Facebook Live video showing Prude undressing and defecating in the street. And a tow truck driver called police to report a naked, bloodied man trying to open a locked car door, the documents provided to CNN say.
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. He yells that he has coronavirus and spits in their direction.
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.
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.
Police investigators who reviewed the footage and interviews with officers and paramedics cleared the officers of wrongdoing, according to internal documents provided by Prude's family attorneys.
"Based upon the investigation, the officers' actions and conduct displayed when dealing with Prude appear to be appropriate and consistent with their training," an internal police report said.
New York Attorney General Letitia James started an investigation of the case on April 16.
"The Prude family and the greater Rochester community deserve answers, and we will continue to work around the clock to provide them," James said in a statement.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo described the video of Daniel Prude "deeply disturbing" Thursday and called for the "case to be concluded as expeditiously as possible."
