In what could prove to be damning evidence, body camera footage released by the state attorney general’s office Friday shows several state correction officers engaging in a brutal and, according to officials, ultimately fatal beating of a handcuffed prisoner at an upstate prison Dec. 9.
The footage, taken from officers’ body-worn cameras but unaccompanied by sound, shows the inmate, Robert Brooks, being carried into Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County just before 9:30 p.m. and placed on an exam table in the jail’s infirmary. Within a few minutes, several officers are throwing and landing punches and kicks on Brooks’ head, stomach and groin as he lies on the exam table in his green prison uniform.
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