REUVEN BLAU / THE CITY
Those that have been in the state pen and their lawyers say “what is most unusual about the beatdown of Mr. Brooks is that it was captured on video.”
In a video that has made international headlines, a group of guards at Marcy prison upstate, some with smiles, punch and kick a handcuffed prisoner who died seven hours later.
For many formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, the scene of a handcuffed Robert Brooks, 43, being beaten by a team of state prison correction officers while in a medical bed on Dec. 10 was not shocking at all.