The officers involved in the death of Robert Brooks Sr. at Marcy’s correctional facility in New York State They have been charged by a great jury.
Officers are accused of murder of second degree and other positions, including slaughter and manipulation of evidence, according to a court document published on Thursday.
Governor Kathy Hochul said in a previously published statement, officers were arrested by murder accusations.
“Robert Brooks should be alive today. The brutal attack on Mr. Brooks was ill, and immediately I moved to the end of the involvement of the involved. Now the authors have been charged with the right murder and the State police make arrests, “the governor wrote.
The Office of the Office of the District of Ondaga, William Fitzpatrick, said that a “remarkable development” would be announced before a state judge on Thursday afternoon, but did not immediately provide any other detail. Fitzpatrick said earlier he would not comment on the investigation until a great jury had acted.
Fitzpatrick assumed the case as a special prosecutor The Attorney General of the State Letitia James was recused On a possible conflict of interest, saying that four of the investigated officers were represented by lawyers at their office in previous brutality demands.
A press conference on the Brooks case is scheduled for 15:30, you can see it live CBS News New York To the previous video player.
Beating of Robert Brooks Sr. caught the camera from the body
The video of the body camera published last month showed several correction officers at Marcy’s correctional installation in Onondaga County, punching Brooks, while handcuffed at a medical examination table on December 9, 2024 .
The 43 -year -old died the next day. The county’s medical examiner’s office ruled that his death was a homicide, caused by the compression of the neck and multiple injuries of a forceful trauma.
“I want everyone to be prosecuted. It was a murder, there is no other word,” said his son, Robert Brooks Jr. In an interview last month. “My father was killed, they stole him from me. He doesn’t get home.”
Brooks had celebrated nine years of a 12 -year prison sentence to stab his son’s mother. He was taken to prison from a nearby installation only hours before the beating.
“He made the crime and was making the time. He returned home a refurbished, which is why he is the prison and he is not what my father got. He received a death sentence,” said Brooks Jr.
It The family filed a civil rights demandAlleging that the prison used excessive force in a system that tolerates violence.
Governor Kathy Hochul visits Marcy’s correctional facility
Brooks beaten was pushed Hochul to visit the correctional facilityIt is located about 200 kilometers north -west of New York City, between Rome and Utica.
Hochul appointed a new superintendent to run the prison and pledged to speed up $ 400 million for new cameras at the installation. He also ordered the State to begin firing procedures for more than a dozen employees.
“Today, while I stayed in the room where Robert Brooks was killed, I was again bewildered by this unnecessary loss of life and I was ill think of thinking about the actions of depraved people without regard to human life,” The governor said in a statement after his visit. “Mr. Brooks and his family did not deserve this.”
So far, 15 nurses and two officers have been suspended without paying, waiting for the investigation. At least one officer quit smoking.
Even before Brooks’ case, Middle Security prison employees had been charged with abuse.
A surveillance group denounced “staff unpleasant abuse” after interviewing people in October 2022. The New York Correctional Association said that he was told about physical assaults in places without cameras , such as between the doors, in the vans and the showers. A guard told a new arrival that this was a “practical installation”, we will put your hands if we don’t like what you do, “the report said.
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