Body-camera video released of beating preceding New York prisoner’s death
Robert Brooks died after 9 December encounter captured by cameras worn by four of 14 corrections officers present
beating preceding New York prisoner’s death
New levels of passive voice to mask accountability unlocked!
Seriously, it's such a stretch to not say "video of prisoner being beaten to death".
Has the fact that the beating led to Brooks' death been officially established? I think newspapers avoid explicitly making that sort of connection on their own, even if it is obvious.
(Also, technically Brooks wasn't beaten to death because he didn't die until the next day. The New York Civil Liberties Union is calling this a "fatal beating" instead.)
I mean, if we're being technical we also can't be sure that when police shoot someone in the chest that that's what caused the person to die.
The press does have a tendency to avoid ascribing blame to police if they can avoid it. That doesn't make it not an egregious case of jumping through hoops to avoid it, and really quite scummy.
A restrained man was beaten for a while, and then died. If I handcuff someone to a table and then me and some friends beat him while he doesn't resist, including stomping on his crotch, absolutely no one will hesitate to say that I was filmed killing the man.
Surviving for a day before succumbing to his injuries does not disconnect the death from the beating. He was beat to death even if he took a day to die from it. Someone dying a week after a car crash because they were in a coma doesn't mean they suddenly died of being in a coma.
If this is what happens on four cameras (presumably because the officers didn't expect anyone to care) then what happens off camera?
Edit: I do feel some sympathy for the nurses who saw the beating and did nothing. What should they have done - called in more cops?
Actually one of the nurses joined in the beating making it 13 people beating this man to death on the day of his transfer to a new prison!
Fuck a cop, fuck a CO, fuck a nurse the cops pay. They all have the same mentality. That nurse was probably just showing off for his cop daddies. They're all sick, the industry is sick, the fact that it's an industry at all is sick.
My record is three cops beating me in one day, and only two at a time! And they were fucking gentle as a lamb compared to this. All cops should burn alive.
Put me on that list baby!! I'll call for violence against this system until my throat bleeds. This is insanity. This is absolutely insanity that we have allowed this to progress to this point. It's honestly pathetic and I'm ashamed that I haven't done more.
Funny, healthcare CEOs aren't walking around every where but some bad guys are in plain sight.
Well, that sounds open and shut.
And now we wait for NY rioting.
Why stop there?
Cops need to be "deposed"
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