The daughter of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died of asphyxiation in March after police put a 'spit hood' on his head and held his face into the ground, said his death was caused by racism in the police force.
'A racist police officer saw a black man in need and decided that he just didn't deserve to live,' Tashyra Prude, an 18-year-old college student in Tennessee, said.
Daniel Prude died on 30 March after he was taken off life support, seven days after the encounter in Rochester.
Daniel Prude: New York police used ‘spit hood’ on Black man who died of asphyxiation