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CRIME | LAW Feb. 21, 2025
MURDER CHARGES FOR THE PRISON GUARDS WHO KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
INDICTMENT CHARGES 6 GUARDS WITH SECOND DEGREE MURDER, FACE LIFE IN PRISON
CRIME | LAW Dec. 26, 2024
PRISON GUARD 'BEAT-UP SQUAD’ KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, OPERATED FOR YEARS, ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES'S OFFICE KNEW IT
2023 DEPOSITION IN FEDERAL CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT WARNED STATE OFFICIALS OF PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
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FROM TRAGEDY TO TRIUMPH, MEET THE FORMERLY-INCARCERATED LEADERS SEEKING JUSTICE FOR ROBERT BROOKS
'THIS IS OUR GEORGE FLOYD'
OFFICER SEXUALLY HARASSED TO DEATH BY GUARDS AT MARCY C.F. SPARKS HUSBAND’S QUEST FOR JUSTICE
"MY SON ASKS ME ALL THE TIME, 'WHAT HAPPENED TO MOMMY? WHY DID MOMMY DIE?' WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO SAY TO HIM?'
NURSES COVERED UP PRISON GUARD VIOLENCE FOR YEARS BEFORE ROBERT BROOKS KILLING, TORTURE CHAMBER WITNESS REVEALS
"AT FIRST IT WAS JUST HEINOUS, IT WAS HORRIBLE. AFTER A WHILE, YOU GET NUMB TO IT. IT BECOMES THE NORMAL."
ROBERT BROOKS WAS ALREADY HURT BEFORE HE WAS KILLED BY GUARDS, GUARD PLEADS 5TH IN COURT
ROBERT BROOKS HAD A 'HEAD INJURY' WHEN HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, COURT TESTIMONY REVEALED ON TUESDAY
'BREAK IT TO FIX IT': NAT’L JAIL EXPERT SAYS PRISON WHERE ROBERT BROOKS WAS TORTURED AND KILLED MAY HAVE TO CLOSE
FORMER PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK JAIL CHIEF AND CORRECTIONS EXPERT MARTIN HORN BLASTS ‘ABSENCE OF MORAL LEADERSHIP’AT MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY FOR ROBERT BROOKS DEATH
WHAT BODY CAMERA VIDEO TELLS US ABOUT THE KILLING OF ROBERT BROOKS BY PRISON GUARDS
AT LEAST 13 GUARDS TORTURED ROBERT BROOKS TO DEATH, THE VIDEO SHOWS
AG LETITIA JAMES WITHDRAWS FROM EFFORT TO DISARM PRISON GUARDS IMPLICATED IN KILLING ROBERT BROOKS
30 DAYS AFTER ROBERT BROOKS WAS KILLED, NO CRIMINAL CHARGES IN SIGHT
GUARD WHO CHOKED, STOMPED ON ROBERT BROOKS GENITALS CONVICTED OF A CRIME IN 2020
ANTHONY FARINA INFAMOUSLY KICKED ROBERT BROOKS IN THE GROIN BEFORE KILLING HIM WITH 12 OTHER GUARDS AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. AT LEAST ONE OF THE OTHER GUARDS HAS A CRIMINAL RECORD TOO, BUT ITS SEALED
LATEST ON ROBERT BROOKS MURDER INVESTIGATION: OFFICIAL CONFIRMS NO ONE CALLED 9-1-1
‘WE HAVE NO RECORDS ON OUR SYSTEM FOR AMBULANCE TRANSPORTS … TO/FROM MARCY TO WYNN HOSPITAL’
GOV. KATHY HOCHUL CALLS FOR CHARGES IN ROBERT BROOKS KILLING BY GUARDS, AG LETITIA JAMES GIVES CASE TO SPECIAL PROSECUTOR
"TOO MUCH TIME HAS PASSED WITHOUT CHARGES BEING BROUGHT AGAINST THE INDIVIDUALS RESPONSIBLE”
ROBERT BROOKS' KILLING BY PRISON GUARDS PRESENTS HIGH-PROFILE TEST OF NEW YORK'S RED FLAG GUN LAW
DOES SOMEONE ACCUSED OF A CRIME, BUT NOT CONVICTED, KEEP THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS?
FIRST TESTIMONY AGAINST PRISON GUARDS WHO KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
'YOU CAN SEE OFFICER DAVID KINGLSEY APPLYING PRESSURE TO THE I/I'S NECK,' INVESTIGATOR RYAN PAPARELLA TESTIFIES. KINGSLEY 'LIFTS HIM BY THE NECK MULTIPLE TIMES'
DOCTOR DETAILS HORRIFIC INJURIES ROBERT BROOKS SUFFERED AS JUDGE TAKES GUNS FROM ONE OF THE ALLEGED KILLER GUARDS
'MULTIPLE SOFT TISSUE HEMORRHAGE OF THE MUSCLES OF THE ANTERIOR RIGHT AND LEFT SIDES OF THE NECK, HEMORRHAGE OVERLAPPING THE THYROID CARTILAGE'
NO ONE CALLED 9-1-1 FOR ROBERT BROOKS, PVT AMBULANCE CO REFUSES TO REVEAL TIMES
THE NIGHT HE WAS BEATEN AND CHOKED BY A PRISON GUARD BEAT-UP SQUAD AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, A PRIVATE AMBULANCE TOOK THE MORTALLY INJURED BROOKS TO WYNN HOSPITAL IN UTICA
OFFICIALS BLOCK RELEASE OF DETAILS OF ROBERT BROOKS' KILLING
EVEN WITH RELEASE OF BODY CAMERA VIDEO, REPORTERS COVERING THE KILLING OF ROBERT BROOKS FACE DAUNTING GOVERNMENT SECRECY
‘SICKENED’: NY GOV. KATHY HOCHUL VISITS PRISON WHERE GUARDS KILLED ROBERT BROOKS, VOWS CHANGE
GOV. KATHY HOCHUL SAID SHE WAS "SICKENED TO THINK OF THE ACTIONS OF DEPRAVED INDIVIDUALS WHO NO REGARD FOR HUMAN LIFE.
MIRACLE AT MARCY: WILLIAM ALVAREZ SURVIVED WHITE PRISON GUARD GANG THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
WILLIAM ALVAREZ IS A VERY LUCKY MAN. HE SURVIVED THE BEAT-UP SQUAD AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
WILL A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR BE APPOINTED TO INVESTIGATE THE KILLING OF ROBERT BROOKS BY A PRISON GUARD BEAT-UP SQUAD?
ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES IS ALREADY DEFENDING THE LEADER OF THE PRISON GUARD ‘BEAT-UP SQUAD’ ACCUSED OF KILLING ROBERT BROOKS AGAINST A LAWSUIT ACCUSING HIM OF CHOKING, BEATING ANOTHER PRISONER
WORSE THAN GEORGE FLOYD: VIDEO SHOWS PRISON 'BEAT-UP SQUAD' KILLING INMATE ROBERT BROOKS
ROBERT BROOKS WAS SERVING A 12-YEAR SENTENCE AT THE MARCY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN NEW YORK WHEN HE WAS BEATEN AND CHOKED BY A SQUAD OF PRISON GUARDS. HE DIED DEC. 10.