Kathy Hochul says that corrections officers who beat Marcy Correctional Facility inmate Robert Brooks have been charged with murder and are being arrested. Body cameras worn by corrections officers captured video of the brutal beating on Dec.
Ten officers have been charged in the death of Robert Brooks. Also, Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered prison correction officers to return to work with protests heading into the fifth day. These stories,
Murder charges have been announced in the death of Robert Brooks, a 43-year-old inmate who was beaten by guards at an upstate New York prison in December.
New York’s governor says prison workers are being arrested Thursday on murder charges in the death of an inmate who was beaten while handcuffed. The beating of Robert Brooks by multiple officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in December was caught on body cameras,
Nine other guards were charged last week in the beating death of the inmate. The top charge was second-degree murder.
Brooks' son said waiting for the guards to be charged has been hard but he looks forward to witnessing this “step toward accountability.”
Ten former prison guards have been indicted in the killing of Robert Brooks, a prisoner who was incarcerated at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York.
These men killed my father, it was on video. The whole world got to see it. Waiting a month for these charges has been incredibly hard.”