[3] Warren had previously faced controversy after the March 2020 killing of Daniel Prude at the hands of Rochester police and her failure to publicly comment on the investigation into it.

[2] On March 12, 2021, a probe by the city council determined that Mayor Warren and then-Rochester Chief of Police La'Ron Singletary concealed critical details about Prude's death from the public and lied about their knowledge of the case.

[4] On May 19, 2021, Warren's husband Timothy Granison was stopped on the road by New York state troopers, who found a large quantity of cocaine in his car.

Granison was one of seven people who were arrested as part of a larger investigation by the Rochester Police Department into the presence and proliferation of illegal drugs within the city.

Although Evans chose not to participate in the endorsement process, saying he wished to "avoid the divisiveness of internal Democratic Party politics," he still received 31% of the votes.