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Rochester police suspend officers over man's death
人命案5個多月后 羅切斯特警方才暫停數名警官職務
Seven Rochester police officers were suspended on Thursday in the suffocation of a Black man as he was being detained in March,
周四，羅切斯特警方暫停了七名警官的職務，因他們在3月份扣押一名黑人男子時過于用力，導致男子窒息死亡，
although the mayor and senior state officials faced escalating questions about why more than five months passed before action was taken.
盡管如此，民眾對羅切斯特市長和紐約州高級官員的質疑聲卻日益響亮，民眾質疑的是，為什么他們過了五個多月才采取行動。
The man, Daniel Prude, who was having a psychotic episode, was handcuffed by officers
該男子名叫丹尼爾·普魯德，于一個寒冷的夜晚赤身裸體跑到街上，
after he ran into the street naked in the middle of the cold night and told at least one passer-by that he had the coronavirus.
告訴了至少一名路人他感染了新冠病毒，案發時正值他精神病發作，后被警察用手銬銬了起來。
Mr. Prude began spitting, and the officers responded by pulling a mesh hood over his head, according to police body camera footage.
警察隨身攝像頭拍下的錄像顯示，普魯德開始隨地吐痰，警察便往他頭上套了一個帶有網眼的頭罩。
When he tried to rise, the officers forced Mr. Prude face down on the ground,
他試圖站起身時，警察強行將其臉朝下摁倒在了地上，
one of them pushing his head to the pavement, the video footage showed.
視頻顯示，其中一名警察還將他的頭推到了人行道上。
Mr. Prude was held down by the police for two minutes, and had to be resuscitated.
普魯德被警察按在地上長達兩分鐘，后不得不送去搶救。
He died a week later at the hospital.
一周后，他在醫院離開了人世。
His death did not receive widespread attention until Wednesday,
直到周三，他的家人公布警方拍下的此次沖突的原視頻，
when his family released raw police videos of the encounter,
他的死亡才得到民眾的廣泛關注，
which they just obtained through an open records request.
時至今日，他們才通過公開記錄申請拿到這段視頻。
The scene — a Black man, handcuffed and sitting in a street, wearing nothing but a white hood—
鏡頭中的畫面——一個黑人男子，戴著手銬坐在街上，除了白色頭罩身上一絲不掛——
seemed a shocking combination of physical helplessness and racist imagery from another era.
似乎是令人瞠目結舌的，來自另一個時代的身體上的無助和種族主義畫面的結合。
Rochester, a city of 200,000 in Western New York,
羅切斯特這座位于紐約州西部，擁有20萬人口的城市
became the latest city to be roiled by the death of a Black person in police custody, with protesters taking to the streets on Wednesday and Thursday.
也因此成為了最新一個因有黑人在警方拘捕下死亡而變得動蕩不安，周三周四民眾接連走上街頭抗議的城市。
By about 9:45 p.m. on what was a bombing Thursday night,
周四晚上9點45分左右，
a crowd of perhaps 100 demonstrators had gathered outside Rochester’s Public Safety Building on Exchange Boulevard.
一群大約100人規模的示威者來到了位于交易所大道的羅切斯特公共安全大樓外。
People were sitting, singing, chanting and eating pizza.
大家席地而坐，唱著歌，齊聲喊著口號，吃著披薩。
At around 10:30 p.m., the dozen or so police officers
到了晚上10點30分左右，
who had been monitoring the demonstrators from behind a barricade
大約20名身著防暴裝的增援人員加入了
were joined by around 20 reinforcements in riot gear.
原本在路障后面控制著示威局勢的十幾名警察的隊伍。
The officers suddenly surged toward the barricade and began firing an irritant of some type into the crowd.
警察們突然涌向路障，開始向示威人群發射刺激物。
It was unclear what the irritant was and what led them to do so.
具體是何種刺激物，以及他們為何有此舉動尚不清楚。
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