Video released on Sept. 2, 2020 shows Daniel Prude sitting on the ground during the encounter with police on March 23, 2020 in Rochester, New York. (Photo: Rochester Police Department via Roth & Roth LLP) A medical examiner concluded that Prude's death was a homicide caused by “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint.” The report lists excited delirium and acute intoxication by phencyclidine, or PCP, as contributing factors.Prude was from Chicago and had just arrived in Rochester for a visit with his brother.
He was kicked off the train before it got to Rochester, in Depew, “due to his unruly behavior,” according to an internal affairs investigator’s report.Rochester police officers took Prude into custody for a.