POLITICS TRUMPED PROSECUTION OF RACIST PRISON GUARD GANG THAT KILLED ROBERT BROOKS
COMMUNIQUE #15
Dec. 29, 2024
Robert Brooks paid with his life for the political ambitions of New York State Attorney General Letitia James.
While James was busy building a national profile with politically-motivated partisan lawsuits against the NRA and Donald Trump, she allowed a sadistic gang of racist white prison guards to become a death squad.
James hammed it up for news cameras outside courtrooms in New York City, while the gang terrorized a prison full of black and hispanic inmates in upstate New York, regularly beating them for sport.
The Marcy Correctional Facility is New York's own version of Abu Ghraib, on the Mohawk River instead of in Iraq.
The gang at Marcy finally killed one of their victims, Brooks, a 43-year-old Rochester, New York native, on Dec. 10.
Video of his death was recovered afterward by police. It's worse than the video of the police murder of George Floyd in 2020. It shows Corrections Officers beating, kicking and finally choking Brooks to death. Supervisors, who were supposed to stop them, instead cheer the killers on.
A white male nurse flashes a wicked smile as he watches the killing from outside the medical examination room the death squad turned into a torture chamber.
What makes Brooks' senseless killing worse is that James could have prevented it. Of course, Gov. Kathy Hochul and her state prison chief, Daniel F. Martuscello III, are also responsible. But as Attorney General, James is New York's highest-ranking law enforcement officer. She's the Empire State's "top cop."
William Alvarez blew the whistle on the Marcy beat-up squad in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed in 2022 but James ignored it.
The former prisoner alleged he was beaten, kicked and choked by the Marcy beat-up squad in 2020. The attack was remarkably similar to its attack on Brooks on Dec. 9, four years later.
Alvarez alleged five Correction Officers, including Sgt. Glenn Trombley and C.O. Anthony Farina, attacked him. Sgt. Trombley was the leader of the squad and C.O. Farina was a member.
Sgt. Trombley and C.O. Farina helped kill Brooks, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul and police.
New York's Public Officers law requires the Attorney General to represent all public employees sued for actions taken "within the scope of his public employment or duties." James assigned three lawyers to defend Trombley, Farina and the other guards named in Alvarez's lawsuit.
In a pre-trial interrogation called a deposition in 2023, Alvarez testified under oath to one of James's Assistant Attorneys General that Sgt. Trombley's beat-up squad repeatedly said "they were going to kill me" and "there was nothing anybody can do about it" as they beat, kicked and choked him in 2020.
Alvarez said the gang choked him "to see if they can stop my breathing."
These allegations were passed up the chain-of-command in the Attorney General's office to James herself, legal experts told The Free Lance.
James—along with Gov. Hochul and DOCCS Commissioner Martuscello—failed to take any meaningful corrective action. Instead, James's office doubled down on fighting Alvarez's lawsuit, which remains pending.
14 months after Alvarez's testimony, the beat-up squad he exposed, led by the sergeant he named, Trombley, killed Brooks.
