Rochester demonstrators protest for eighth night, stage naked sit-in at City Hall

More than a dozen semi-nude people wearing “spit hoods” sat at the entrance to Rochester’s City Hall on Thursday – the second time in only days – to protest the death of Daniel Prude just hours after hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets for the eighth consecutive night, according to officials and multiple reports. The protesters sat in front of the City Hall’s Church Street entrance on Thursday morning, wearing the mesh coverings, known as “spit hoods,” over their heads to mimic the circumstances of Prude’s March 23 arrest, the Democrat and Chronicle reported.-- More...