Murdered, there’s no other way to describe it,” that’s what Governor Kathy Hochul said after watching the video of Robert ...

The death of inmate Robert L. Brooks, who was brutally beaten by multiple New York state corrections officers, has been ruled a homicide, according to a family lawyer.

The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Wednesday against the 17 officers under investigation in the case.

nobody asked tougher or indeed better questions than Bob Brooks. Always with his game face on. He was tough, but always gracious and respectful. I went to New York in the fall of 2002 to head up ...

The news reports about and video of the New York prison treatment of Robert Brooks, a Black man from Greece who died after being beaten by white corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility ...

NEW YORK — The family of an inmate who died after being beaten by prison guards in an upstate New York facility has filed a civil rights lawsuit. Body camera video from Dec. 9, 2024 shows ...

announced this week that four additional jail employees have been issued disciplinary notices in connection with the December death of Robert Brooks, an incarcerated man from Greece, New York.