There is growing outrage today over the death of an inmate in a New York State prison,

who was brutally beaten by more than a dozen correction officers.

Detainee advocates are concerned it's part of a larger culture of violence within the state's

correctional system.

Laura Burone Lopez has our look and a warning to our viewers.

The video which we will show only in part, is very disturbing.

Body cam footage shows Robert Brooks repeatedly kicked, punched, and choked after arriving

at the Marcy Correctional Facility on December 9th.

Brooks had been serving a 12-year sentence for an assault in 2017.

It is unclear why he was transferred to the Central New York prison.

At one point, one officer yanks him by the neck and drops his semi-conscious body on an examination table.

The beating lasted roughly 20 minutes. Brooks died the following morning. In a statement, an attorney for the Brooks family said, Mr. Brooks was fatally violently beaten by a group of officers whose job

was to keep him safe. He deserved to live. New York Governor Kathy Hochel has requested the

termination of 13 guards and one nurse implicated in the assault.

After visiting the facility where Brooks was beaten, Governor Hokel released a statement yesterday,

saying in part, the system failed Mr. Brooks, and I will not be satisfied until there has been significant culture change.

In the aftermath of Brooks's death, community leaders and activists are calling for justice

and reform.

Just because individuals are incarcerated doesn't mean that they give up their rights to be human

beings.

A 2023 investigation by the Marshall Project in the New York Times found that from 2010 to

2022, New York's Department of Corrections filed 5,642 disciplinary cases against prison

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