The videos show Brooks with his hands chained behind his back. One footage shows him sitting up as an officer applies pressure with his foot. Then, two cops hit him.
At another moment, his face is clearly bloodied as he is violently pulled off the bed by the neck of his shirt and hoisted high over the floor.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision was directed by Governor Kathy Hochul last week.
To start the process of terminating 14 employees at the Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, the site of the event. Correctional officers,
Sergeants, and a prison nurse are among them. With the exception of one officer who has already left, everyone has been suspended without pay in the meantime.Daniel Martuscello,
The state correctional department commissioner, said his agency has started its own inquiry in an attempt to bring about “institutional change” in a statement after the films were made public.
