Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester, N.Y., said Thursday that “against the advice of council” she has suspended the police officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude.

Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died in March seven days after officers put a “spit hood” over his head and pressed his face into the ground for more than three minutes.

A medical examiner declared his death a homicide caused by “complications of asphyxia in the setting of a physical restraint."

Warren said Thursday she had been told that Prude died of a drug overdose while in police custody.

Activists and family of Prude have demanded the officers involved in his death be charged.

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