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Police use of spit hoods scrutinized after Black man's death

by Associated Press
| September 3, 2020 4:03 PM

NEW YORK (AP) — Not five minutes after police slipped a “spit hood” over Daniel Prude's head, the 41-year-old Black man went limp. A week later, he was taken off life support.

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