The chief of the Rochester, N.Y., police department and two deputies resigned Tuesday after days of protests and mounting criticism over the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who died in March after officers restrained him and placed a mesh hood over his head. Separately, also Tuesday, the chief of the Dallas police department, U. Reneé Hall, agreed to resign following a backlash against her department’s handling of protests following the widespread demonstrations against police brutality in the wake of the killing of George...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 08, 2020 21:04 UTC