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La’Ron Singletary, a former Rochester Police Department (RPD) Police Chief, answers questions after a press conference announcing his run for Congress representing the 25th District of N.Y. at the Joseph A. Floreano Riverside Convention Center in Downtown Rochester, N.Y., on Nov. 4, 2021. Singletary is marked by controversy for allegedly covering up the murder of Daniel Prude, a man who died 7 days after a violent altercation with RPD Officers. The incident occurred on March 23, 2020, and did not come to light for 6 months, causing protests calling for police accountability and mental health specialists assisting police. Singletary was fired by former Mayor Lovely Warren for “poor communication in the case” on Sept. 14, 2020, 2 weeks before he was set to retire on his own accord.