Former city employee pleads guilty to assaulting an RPD officer
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Former City of Rochester employee Anthony Hall has pleaded guilty to assaulting an officer.
Hall appeared in Monroe County Court on Monday to answer to the second-degree assault charge and to be sentenced for stealing from a nonprofit. Instead, he will be sentenced for both crimes on Monday, April 7.
Hall pleaded guilty to pushing and injuring a Rochester Police officer who responded to a domestic call in January outside an apartment complex on East Main Street. Last week, News10NBC obtained bodycam footage showing the interaction.
Hall, the former head of the city’s anti-violence group Pathways to Peace, also pleaded guilty back in November to stealing from the Coalition of North East Associations. It happened while he was volunteering at the nonprofit that addresses crime, housing, and youth development. Investigators say he used the nonprofit’s debit card to transfer money to his Cash App account for nearly a year.
Hall faces two years in prison and two years of post-release supervision for the assault. He also faces a year and a half in prison for grand larceny and must pay back thousands.