Disturbing past of guards who beat inmate strapped to gurney to death is revealed

Chilling new details have emerged about the brutal beating of an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility in upstate New York, which ultimately led to the inmate’s death.

At least three of the 13 New York correctional officers involved in the brutal beating of 39-year-old Robert Brooks — who was handcuffed at the time of the fatal beating — have been charged with participating in similar attacks on inmates across the state.

A sergeant and two guards at the facility — 50 miles outside Syracuse — were previously named in federal lawsuits filed by inmates accusing them of horrific attacks, including one that left a man permanently disfigured.

One of the officers accused of assaulting Brooks, who was serving a 12-year sentence for first-degree assault, is accused of beating an inmate in a bathroom at the Oneida County Jail, the New York Times reports .

The officer, Nicholas Anzalone, allegedly punched and kicked inmate Adam Bauer, who was a year away from his release date, in February 2020 before the officer accused Bauer of attacking them, an ongoing lawsuit alleges.

Bauer was left topless and bloodied after the attack, the lawsuit alleges.

“I was terrified,” Bauer, now 50, told the Times. “I really thought they were going to kill me.”

In September of that same year, two additional guards involved in the fatal attack on Brooks on December 10 were alleged to have taken part in a gruesome attack on another inmate.

At least three of the 13 New York correctional officers involved in the brutal beating of 39-year-old Robert Brooks (left) – who was handcuffed at the time of the fatal beating – have been charged with participating in similar attacks on inmates across the country. world. stands

William Alvarez claims he was cleaning the bathroom shower area when an officer pepper-sprayed him without provocation, according to a lawsuit.

Sergeant Glenn Trombly and Officer Anthony Farin then repeatedly slammed Alvarez’s head against a wall before handcuffing him and dragging him into a van that was sent to the infirmary, the complaint alleges.

Alvarez, whose lawsuit claims he is now permanently disfigured, has since required facial surgery, the Times reports.

Trombly was also accused of forcing another inmate, Rendell Robinson, to undress during a search during a 2013 altercation.

Robinson alleged that another officer then took turns punching him in the face, according to his lawsuit. He reportedly suffered a concussion and a broken nose after the attack.

“I really started to fear for my life at that point because they wouldn’t let me go,” Robinson wrote in his court complaint.

In 2015, another man, Equarn White, accused Trombly and several other officers of brutally assaulting him in an empty classroom, pulling his legs in opposite directions, stomping on his testicles and hitting the bottoms of his feet with a baton. hit.

However, in the days before the gruesome videos of Brooks’ final moments were made public, state police filed requests seeking a red flag warrant for Officer Anzalone and two other officers allegedly involved in the fatal attack, Matthew Galliher and Robert Kessler.

A sergeant and two guards at the facility — 50 miles outside Syracuse — were previously named in federal lawsuits filed by inmates accusing them of horrific attacks, including one that left a man permanently disfigured. Pictured: Prison guards captured on surveillance video attacking Robert Brooks

Thirteen corrections officers and a nurse involved in the attack will be fired, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who said she was “outraged and shocked” by videos of the “senseless murder.” In the photo: bodycam footage shows New York officers beating a prisoner to death

A so-called red flag order allows law enforcement authorities to take guns away from people believed to pose a potential threat to themselves or others.

An Oneida County judge denied the applications but has since ordered state police to conduct background checks on the officers.

A hearing on the case is scheduled for January 7.

Brooks, 43, was pronounced dead on December 10, the morning after the brutal attack on the correctional facility.

His final, agonizing moments were captured on body-worn cameras used by prison staff that showed the attack, as well as several prison guards failing to intervene.

Thirteen corrections officers and a nurse involved in the attack will be fired, according to New York Governor Kathy Hochul, who said she was “outraged and shocked” by videos of the “senseless killing.”

The footage was made public Friday by New York Attorney General Letitia James and shows three corrections officers carrying Brooks up to a medical exam room.

Once inside, they repeatedly punch Brooks in the face and groin as he sits handcuffed on a medical exam table.

At one point, one of the officers pushes his boot into Brooks’ stomach, forcing him backwards another yanks him up by the neck and drops him back onto the table.

Brooks was pronounced dead at a hospital the next morning.

Preliminary findings from a medical examination indicate “concerns of asphyxia due to neck compression as a cause of death, as well as death being the result of the actions of another person,” according to court documents.

The final results of the autopsy are still pending.