Cops Put Hood on Man’s Head, Smash His Face Into the Street Until He Stops Breathing and Dies
When Daniel Prude died on March 30 of this year, not one mainstream media network covered it and it had been but a blip in local media. It wasn't until his family fought for months to seek out out what happened that Prude's case is finally seeing the sunshine of day. In the midst of a chemically-induced psychological state crisis, Prude was compliant and sat on the bottom when asked by police and placed into handcuffs. Moments later, he'd have a hood placed on his head while cops shoved his face into the pavement until he stopped breathing and eventually died. Seven days after Prude stopped breathing, he would die on life support. Prude's brother called police that evening to urge help for his brother. "I placed a call for my brother to urge help. Not for my brother to urge lynched," Prude's brother, Joe Prude, said at a press conference . "How did you see him and indirectly say, 'The man is defenseless, buck naked on t