Damn this angers me so bad …
Shocking footage of New York officers beat a man in handcuffs to death in prison.
R.I.P. Robert Brooks pic.twitter.com/bxPsSVGJAn
— Bianca Bbvea🪐 (@BbveaBianca) December 28, 2024
Newly released bodycam footage appears to show New York corrections officers fatally beating a handcuffed inmate who died the following morning.
The inmate, 43-year-old Robert Brooks, was pronounced dead on 10 December, the day after the incident took place at the Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York.
Following an internal review, New York Governor Kathy Hochul ordered the firing of the 13 officers and a prison nurse who were involved in the assault.
The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James has opened an investigation into Brooks’ death, and the union that represents state prison workers called the video “incomprehensible”.
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The footage – which was released by James on Friday – shows officers repeatedly striking Brooks in the face and groin while he sits handcuffed on an examination table.
The videos also appear to show a prison officer placing something in Brooks’ mouth before striking him, as well as a separate officer hitting him in the stomach with a shoe.
At one point, an officer lifts him by the neck before forcefully putting him on the examination table.
Brooks died the day after the assault. Preliminary examinations determined the cause of death was “asphyxia due to compression of the neck.”
It is unclear what initially prompted staff to take him to the prison’s medical facility in the first place. The videos do not include audio.
New York State Attorney General’s Office
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