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This episode contains strong language.\n\nIn March, Daniel Prude was exhibiting signs of a mental health crisis. His brother called an ambulance in the hopes that Mr. Prude would be hospitalized, but he was sent back home after three hours without a diagnosis.\n\nLater, when Mr. Prude ran out of the house barely clothed into the Rochester night, his brother, Joe Prude, again called on the authorities for help, but this time it was to the police.\n\nAfter a struggle with officers, Daniel Prude suffered cardiac distress. It would be days before Joe Prude was able to visit him in the hospital \u2014 permitted only so he could decide whether to take his brother off life support \u2014 and months before the family would find out what had happened when he was apprehended.\n\nToday, we hear from Joe Prude about that night and examine the actions taken by the police during his brother\u2019s arrest, including the official narrative that emerged after his death.\n\nGuest: Sarah Maslin Nir, a reporter for The New York Times, who spoke to Daniel Prude\u2019s brother, Joe Prude.\n\nFor more information on today\u2019s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily\xa0\n\nBackground reading:\xa0In the minutes after Mr. Prude\u2019s heart briefly stopped during a struggle with officers, an unofficial police narrative took hold: He had suffered a drug overdose. But the release of body camera footage complicated that version of events.The Monroe County medical examiner ruled Mr. Prude\u2019s death a homicide caused by \u201ccomplications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint.\u201d Seven Rochester police officers have now been suspended.