Six naked, or near-naked, demonstrators gathered early Monday morning in downtown Rochester, in upstate New York, wearing"spit hoods" over their heads in solidarity with Daniel Prude, a Black man who died there in March days after police put a mesh hood over his head as he knelt naked and restrained on the street.
Video posted by the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper showed the demonstrators later being wrapped in blankets and led away from the protest site. Release of the video was followed by protests in Rochester, turning the city of 200 000 people in the northwest corner of the state into the latest flash point in a summer of civil unrest over racism and police brutality.
President Donald Trump, who has been trailing Democratic rival Joe Biden in opinion polls and has been painting himself as a"law-and-order" president, tweeted Monday morning about recent protests.
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