White NY Jail Cop Sentenced for Role in the Savage Beating Murder of Messiah Nantwi. A Gang of 10 White Cops Repeatedly Struck and Stomped Black Man's Head and Body 70X as He Begged for His Life

 From [HERE] and [MORE] A white New York state corrections officer was sentenced Monday in connection with the fatal beating an inmate earlier this year at a Central New York prison.

Messiah Nantwi, 22, was beaten by corrections officers who were part of an emergency response team at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York. He died at at Wynn Hospital in Utica, New York later that day. Nantwi was being held in pre-trial detention on charges of shooting two men in Harlem in April 2023

Oneida County Court Judge Michael Nolan sentenced the former officer, Daniel Burger, to 1 1/3 to 4 years in state prison.

Burger previously pleaded guilty to first-degree offering a false instrument for filing. He had been indicted on that charge, as well as first-degree manslaughter, first-degree gang assault, second-degree gang assault and fifth-degree conspiracy.

Prosecutor Alphonse Williams, an Onondaga County senior assistant district attorney, said Burger did “lay hands” on Nantwi, but was not a major contributor to his death. [MORE]

Nantwi, a 22-year-old incarcerated individual at Mid-State Correctional Facility, died March 1 after body camera footage shows correction officers beating Nantwi with multiple strikes to his body and head with their boots in series of multiple beatings at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Oneida County.

The officers used their fists, batons and boots to strike Nantwi, prosecutors have said. He was found with no signs of life 45 minutes after the guards first entered his cell.

The officers then worked to cover their tracks, prosecutors said. They are accused of falsifying forms, planting a weapon and meeting the following day at a local diner to agree on a false story.

Ten guards were indicted in the case, including two for murder. They and five others were charged with manslaughter. Four, including Burger, have pleaded guilty. Most recently, Francis Chandler, who had also faced manslaughter and conspiracy charges, pleaded guilty this month to second-degree gang assult in Oneida County Court. Another six people have agreed to become cooperating witnesses for the prosecution.

The case is set to go to trial early next year.

Additional former Mid-State correction officers are expected in court this week.

Mid-State Correctional is located across the street from Marcy Correctional Facility, where white correction brutally officers beat Robert Brooks on Dec. 9, 2024, causing his death.

According to the indictment:

On Saturday, the 1st day of March of 2025, the administration of the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York in Oneida County was dealing with a Corrections Officer strike. To deal with the shortage of Correctional Officers, the Governor of the State of New York mobilized the New York State National Guard to assist New York Correctional Facilities in guarding the incarcerated individuals and to maintain order. The National Guardsmen received little training to deal with these prisoners or on how to interact with them.

On this date, at approximately 10:58 a.m. a request for assistance was broadcast by the National Guard resulting in the Mid-State CERT (Corrections Emergency Response Team) team responding to Building 21 to deal with an unknown issue with an incarcerated individual Defendants were part of that CERT Team and upon arriving at Building 21 they were directed to Room 21-A and Incarcerated Individual Messiah Nantwi by the National Guardsmen. Having no clear understanding of why CERT response was necessary, Defendants entered Messiah Nantwi's room after a number of CERT members had already engaged the Incarcerated Individual.

During the subsequent encounter, contrary to DOCCS protocols, defendants began beating Messiah NantwL including multiple strikes to his body and head with their boots. Once Messiah Nantwi was no longer responsive, defendants transported Messiah Nantwi out of Building 21 with their objective being to take him to the Facility's Infirmary. While defendants transported Incarcerated Individual Messiah Nantwi down the stairwell out of Building 21, a further assault occurred with Messiah Nantwi being assaulted on the stairs by defendants as he was carried out of the building. Messiah Nantwi was subsequently dumped in a holding cell at the Infirmary and further struck by defendant CALEB BLAIR. As a result of the numerous beatings by defendants and their fellow Correctional Officers, Incarcerated Individual Messiah Nantwi died due to massive head trauma and numerous other injuries to his body. Defendants' conduct in beating Messiah Nantwi, in kicking him and stomping on his head for no legitimate law enforcement purpose, and for further assaulting him and injuring him on the stairs exiting his building, and for leaving him unattended in a holding cell for several minutes while displaying no urgency for medical personnel to check on him, demonstrated depraved indifference to the life of Incarcerated Individual Messiah Nantwi, and resulted in his death. [MORE]