Speaker 1: But Robert Brooks was beaten to death while handcuffed.
Speaker 2: He wasn't just killed, he was tortured on camera.
Speaker 3: It was caught on video. Where are the arrest I
Speaker 3: want names, I want faces that the Governor.
Speaker 2: Of New York is gonna come out and.
Speaker 3: Says thirteen correctional officers.
Speaker 2: I want to know all thirteen.
Speaker 1: I want their names, I want their face this, I
Speaker 1: want them on camera, every one of them, every.
Speaker 2: One of them. Welcome back to the stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith Show right here with the digital It was a
Speaker 1: YouTube and of course iHeartRadio. That was me speaking on
Speaker 1: December thirty first, upon learning about the story that I'm
Speaker 1: about to reiterate to you right now because in the
Speaker 1: latest on this story we discussed on this show when
Speaker 1: it happened in December. Murder charges have been announced in
Speaker 1: the death of Robert Brooks, a forty three year old
Speaker 1: inmate who was beaten by guards at a prison in
Speaker 1: upstate New York. Governor Kathy Hockel announced the chargers Thursday,
Speaker 1: and a statement Hoko said, quote, Robert Brooks should be
Speaker 1: alive today. The brutal attack on mister Brooks was sickening,
Speaker 1: and I immediately moved to terminate the employment of those
Speaker 1: involved end quote. In a grand jury indictment, six correctional
Speaker 1: officers were charged with second degree murder and first degree manslaughter.
Speaker 1: Two of them were also charged with gang assault. The
Speaker 1: sixth charged with second degree murder on Nicholas and Zelone,
Speaker 1: David Kingsley, Anthony Anthony Farina, Christopher Warreth, Matthew Gallaher and
Speaker 1: an unnamed person.
Speaker 2: You see their faces right there. Take a little let's
Speaker 2: pause for a second.
Speaker 3: Let's look at their faces right now, Hey, one of them.
Speaker 2: I don't like the fact that they turned sideways.
Speaker 1: Personally, I want to see them front I want to
Speaker 1: see the frontal view like ANGELOONI.
Speaker 2: I want to see the rest of.
Speaker 3: Them are Why it is Kingsley, Farina, Warreth and Galaher sideway?
Speaker 2: That's what I want to know, But I digress.
Speaker 1: Seventeen employees, including four sergeants and two nurses, were alleged
Speaker 1: to be involved in the.
Speaker 2: Death, and was suspended as a result of the incident.
Speaker 1: Four others were charged in the grand jury indictment and
Speaker 1: connection with the case on varying charges including manslaughter and
Speaker 1: evidence tampering the BODYCM footage from December ninth shows Brooks
Speaker 1: with his hands cuffed behind his back at the Marsie
Speaker 1: Correctional Facility as multiple.
Speaker 2: Guards punched and kicked them.
Speaker 1: Brooks was on an infirmary bed when the attack occurred,
Speaker 1: and at one point in the video his face was
Speaker 1: visibly bloodied. He was taken to the hospital and died
Speaker 1: the following day. An autopsy report that cleared brooks manner
Speaker 1: of death was homicide, according to his family's attorney. And
Speaker 1: attorney Elizabeth Masour told NBC News that Brooks died due
Speaker 1: to compression of and multiple blunt force injuries. Second degree
Speaker 1: murder aggravated. The sult stuff like that. Why isn't the
Speaker 1: first degree murder?
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 1: I guess when you look at the charges, I mean,
Speaker 1: they could all be looking at twenty five years in
Speaker 1: prison or whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean. A man is dead, I wouldn't be mad.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be mad if they got the death penalty.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how. I'm amazed how how folks
Speaker 1: completely not guilty. You caught him video. The man is
Speaker 1: covered with his hands behind his back on an infirmary
Speaker 1: bed and you're beating him to a pulp and you're
Speaker 1: saying you're not guilty.
Speaker 2: How how.
Speaker 1: You know this is not police officers, it's correctional officers.
Speaker 1: But law enforcement is law enforcement. Right, unarmed black man
Speaker 1: is an unarmed black man?
Speaker 2: Right? Was he armed?
Speaker 1: Was in his hands, cuffored behind his back, and you
Speaker 1: literally beat him to death.
Speaker 2: Obviously, there was a whole bunch of people complicit.
Speaker 1: First we heard thirteen, now we hear about six being indicted,
Speaker 1: and then the next thing, you know, seventeen other folks.
Speaker 1: I mean, damn, it was a coordinated attack evidently, So
Speaker 1: these bastards should be under the jail. There's no way
Speaker 1: that they should get off.
Speaker 2: No way in hell they took him out.
Speaker 1: Take them out, at least take them off the streets
Speaker 1: for the rest of their natural lives.
Speaker 2: They committed murder. What's you gonna say. I only punched
Speaker 2: them twice. The other person punched them five times.
Speaker 3: Anybody that was involved needs to go down. Anybody that
Speaker 3: was involved now put their hands, their feet, a club
Speaker 3: or whatever it is on that man.
Speaker 2: They need to go down, all.
Speaker 4: Of them, all of them.
Speaker 1: You know, when you see stuff like that, because we
Speaker 1: saw the video, just take a moment to ask yourself
Speaker 1: where if that had been you. Do you understand when
Speaker 1: your hands are cuffed behind your back, you don't even
Speaker 1: have the ability to cover yourself and shield yourself from
Speaker 1: the punishment being inflicted upon you. You don't even get
Speaker 1: to curl up in a ball and cover yourself for
Speaker 1: protective measures.
Speaker 2: You don't even get to do that. Do you realize
Speaker 1: That that's what they did to that man, That's what
Speaker 1: they did to that man, similar to the kind of
Speaker 1: things that used to be done to us, which had
Speaker 1: black folks resembling activists all over this nation.