The independent investigator appointed by the Rochester City Council has concluded that the principal reason the city government suppressed information about the death of Daniel Prude for more than four months, was to cover it up.
The report says then-Police Chief La'Ron Singletary's disclosures to the city's Corporation Counsel and the Communications Director deemphasized the role of police restraints in Prude's death, and did not capture the disturbing tenor of the encounter.
The report says those characterizations likely impacted how the City officials viewed what had occurred.
It says Corporation Counsel Tim Curtin discouraged Mayor Warren from going public, citing reasons that were factually incorrect or without a legal basis.
And the report says Warren, Curtin, and Singletary made false statements in September about why the case was not disclosed sooner.
The report is posted online at RochesterInvestigation.com.