"Make him a suspect" -
The sad part in all this, is his brother Joe, tried really hard to get Daniel the help he so desperately needed that night. I've shied away from reading the details of this case. Just read that his brother had taken him to the hospital hours before seeking help, they released him, he continued to spiral downwards. The whole system failed Daniel. And then tried to smear him. I can't imagine the pain his brother is feeling. He thought he was doing the right thing, he took him to the hospital, they did not admit him. He got worse, he called 911. He died. Made even worse by this revelation that they wanted to make him look like a suspect instead of a victim.
The ease at which this is said, leads me to believe that its something that is done routinely.
A Rochester police officer wrote "make him a suspect" on an incident report about the department's fatal encounter with Daniel Prude, and it was just one of many ways officials tried to keep information on what happened from going public, according to emails and documents released as part of the city's internal investigation into what happened.
The report seen by Insider includes 325 pages of documents and emails in which officers discussed a concern of "blow back" in the community over Prude's death, as well as multiple attempts to control the narrative.
In one document, first flagged by The New York Times, a police officer circled Prude's name, and wrote the words: "Make him a suspect."
The comment was written after another officer had listed Prude as an "individual" in a document's "victim type." According to The Times, police believed Prude had broken a window at a store the night of the fatal encounter.
In other documents released as part of the investigation, city officials tried withholding body camera footage of the incident, attempted to influence Prude's autopsy, and failed to respond to requests made by the attorney representing Prude's family in a timely manner.
[link:https://www.insider.com/rochester-pd-wrote-make-him-a-suspect-daniel-prude-report-2020-9|
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