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Officers suspended in suffocation death; protesters unswayed

by Associated Press
| September 4, 2020 6:03 AM

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Seven police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York, were suspended by the city's mayor, who said she was misled for months about the circumstances of the fatal encounter.

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