Klanarchy in NY Jail Mistakenly Caught on Video Forces 4 Cops to Plead Guilty in the Brutal Murder of Robert Brooks. 14 Cops Enslaved, Beat Restrained Black Man in a Vulgar Display of Racism/Authority
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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY
Lynching – the juxtaposition of insensate self-hatred (inferiority complex) and sudden death within the horror-dome of Racism White Supremacy (the expression of the fear of genetic annihilation). For pictorial proof of the Caucasian’s inhumanity to Afrikans (the civilizers of hue-manity), see: “Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America.”
Klanarchy – rule by the Klan. Klanarchy was practiced at its zenith in the southern states between 1910 and 1955; characterized by such vigilantism as murders, beatings, lynchings, tar-and-feathering, bombing and maiming almost exclusively people of Afrikan descent, and to much lesser extents Catholics and “Jews.” The TRUMP- Bush Klan currently rule.
THE ULTIMATE SLAVERY IS MURDER. From [HERE] Four white state corrections officers pleaded guilty Monday in a Utica courtroom in the fatal beating of a defenseless Black man last year at a Central New York prison.
The corrections officers had been scheduled to go on trial in two weeks alongside their co-defendants in the death of Robert L. Brooks, 43, an inmate at Macy Correctional Facility.
The four white men are:
Nicholas Anzalone. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.
Anthony Farina. He pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
Sgt. Michael Mashaw. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree manslaughter.
David Walters. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter. He had been indicted for second-degree manslaughter.
Oneida County Court Judge Robert Bauer promised Anzalone and Farina 22 years in state prison in exchange for their guilty pleas. They had faced 25 years to life in prison on the murder charge.
Mashaw and Walters were promised 3 to 9 years in state prison in exchange for their guilty plea. They faced 3 to 15 years if convicted of second-degree manslaughter.
Four guards rejected plea deals in court Monday: David Kingsley, Nicholas Kieffer, Mathew Galliher and Michael Fisher. These are the charges they face:
Galliher: second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and second-degree gang assault.
Kieffer: second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, second-degree gang assault and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.
Kingsley: second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
Fisher: second-degree manslaughter.
Nine corrections officers and a prison sergeant were charged in the fatal beating of Brooks. 14 were involved, all are white.
The savage beating — which prosecutors said was the final of three beatings to Brooks — was recorded on video by body cameras worn by four of the prison guards. None had turned on their camera, but 30 minutes of video was passively recorded without audio.
The Brooks family has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in federal court claiming state officials oversee a “dangerously broken” prison system that brutalizes inmates. According to the civil complaint:
“On December 9, 2024, prison staff at Marcy Correctional Facility (“Marcy”) repeatedly punched, kicked, and otherwise physically attacked Robert while he was at all times handcuffed, restrained, and completely defenseless. Robert’s fatal beating by the people charged with protecting him—a prolonged beating so severe and grotesque that it shocks the conscience— occurred because of the ongoing tolerance of staff violence against people incarcerated at Marcy and other prisons throughout the NYSDOCCS system. Robert’s attackers systematically and casually beat him to death. Other Defendants assisted in the fatal beating by further restraining Robert when he was already handcuffed and then also later shackled. Still other Defendants simply stood by and observed the fatal beating as if it were a normal and common occurrence at Marcy. On information and belief—it was exactly that.
Robert had done nothing to justify the use of any force against him, much less deadly force. Robert’s killers were unaware that some of their own body-worn cameras (“BWC”s) passively recorded much of the attack on video. As Marcy staff brutalized Robert, they believed that their actions would never see the light of day.
None of the Defendants reported the attack. Instead, after killing Robert, they concocted lies to attempt to cover up their actions and then went about their daily business as usual. 5. The video footage showing Robert’s fatal assault reveals a chilling scene. It depicts several large white law enforcement officers torturing a bloodied Black man who is restrained, helpless, and struggling to maintain consciousness. The perpetrators’ brutality goes on and over the course of roughly ten minutes. It continues past several initial rounds of beatings. It continues beyond one officer hammering Robert repeatedly with the heel of a shoe and another officer lifting Robert by the neck using a chokehold. The brutality continues even beyond Robert losing the ability to sit upright and well after Robert falls into a state of semiconsciousness.
Almost as disturbing as the video’s depiction of violence perpetrated on Robert by at least six Defendants is the demeanor of at least nine other Defendants who all stood by watching Robert’s killing. Rather than making any effort to end the inhumane brutality, every staff member who was present casually observed Robert’s prolonged attack as if it were a routine activity. All remained calm and utterly unfazed by what was happening. Some appear bored. Others appear amused, visibly smiling or laughing at what seems to have been a spectator sport to them. The brutal attack on Robert was very obviously business-as-usual for all involved.
The video is frightening and very difficult to watch, but it reflects the dark and dangerous reality that individuals incarcerated at Marcy face on a regular basis. It reveals precisely what Marcy staff do to those incarcerated in the prison when they believe no one is watching. It evidences the rampant abuses that New York prisoners as well as the Correctional Association of New York (“CANY”)1 have reported and warned about for years. As CANY recognized, “Mr. Brooks’s death cast a harsh light on the grim realities of life within our state prisons, realities that have been documented by [CANY] for decades.” For far too long, CANY’s warnings that the lives of people in NYSDOCCS are profoundly at risk and those individuals’ pleas for help and protection have been met with profound silence.”
Specifically, video shows that sometime after his transport van arrived at Marcy, Robert was on the ground outside of a Marcy building with his hands handcuffed behind his back, while surrounded by Defendants Kieffer, Mashaw, Kessler and Kinglsey. According to the civil complaint:
“After Defendants Trombly and Farina approached the group, two of the Defendants lifted Robert off the ground and began moving him toward the Marcy Infirmary Building with his arms extended above his head and his upper torso parallel to the ground. The other four Defendants in the group followed.
Approximately one minute later, at 9:22 p.m., Robert entered the Infirmary Building carried by three Defendants. Defendants Kessler and Anzalone each held Robert by his arms and Defendant Kingsley held Robert by both of his feet, carrying him in a contorted face- down position
The Defendants proceeded to carry Robert into the open door of a medical examination room, in and around which other On-Scene Defendants were already gathered.
On information and belief, the On-Scene Defendants knew that there were no surveillance cameras in Marcy’s medical examination rooms and they deliberately took Robert to that location so there would be no recordings of what they intended to do to him.
Inside the room, with the door left open, Defendants placed Robert on an examination table face down on his stomach. One Defendant used his knee and hands to forcibly restrain Robert’s legs, while at least one other Defendant used his arms to forcibly restrain Robert’s upper body
Thereafter, over the course of approximately ten minutes, numerous On-Scene Defendants continued to viciously batter Robert in myriad ways without any provocation whatsoever on Robert’s part. Robert’s hands remained restrained behind his back the entire time, leaving him no means to defend himself against Defendants’ attacks or soften their blows.
The continued assault on Robert included, but was not limited to, the actions described in the following paragraphs, that were all recorded on video.
Defendant Anzalone repeatedly punched Robert while Robert was on his back on the examination table, leaving his face visibly bloodied and swollen when Defendants then raised his upper torso
Defendant Farina forcibly tried to shove a white cloth into Robert’s mouth while Defendant Kinglsey kept both of his hands grasped around Robert’s neck, impairing Robert’s ability to breathe
When Robert struggled to move his head for breath, Defendant Anzalone grabbed the front of Robert’s shirt and Defendant Kingsley pulled back on Robert’s neck as Defendant Farina rapidly punched Robert in the face and neck or shoulder area, with hard closed-fist blows, at least six times.
After Defendant Farina’s initial punches to Robert’s face made Robert fall back onto the examination table, Defendant Anzalone punched Robert in the groin or leg area at least twice as Defendant Farina simultaneously continued to punch Robert’s face or shoulder area.
Seconds later, Defendant Kinglsey lifted Robert’s upper torso back up off the table with one hand behind Robert’s head, and another hand around Robert’s neck, so that Robert was again in a sitting position on the edge of the table
Defendant Kingsley then proceeded to position both of his hands around Robert’s neck and lift Robert’s buttocks up off the table two consecutive times by pulling up on Robert’s neck
Defendant Kingsley next repositioned himself by placing his right arm further around Robert’s neck, in a chokehold, and once again forcefully raised Robert up off the examination table by his neck (see Figures 8 and 9 below).
At the same time, Defendant Farina threw away the white cloth that he previously tried to shove into Robert’s mouth, removed one of his gloves, and examined the hand he had just used to repeatedly strike Robert (see Figure 8 below). Defendant Farina then opened and closed his fingers and shook out his hand in an apparent effort to relieve the self-inflicted pain caused by his repeated blows to Robert’s face and head.
Defendant Kingsley then forcefully shoved Robert back down to a seated position on the examination table. Defendant Anzalone next proceeded to repeatedly beat Robert in the stomach with the back of one of Robert’s shoes.
Next, Defendant Anzalone and Defendant Kingsley pushed Robert’s head and shoulders back down onto the examination table once again. Defendant Anzalone, Defendant Kingsley, and Defendant Galliher then restrained Robert’s upper torso, while Defendant Farina kicked his foot into Robert’s groin (see Figure 10 below).
Defendant Farina shifted his weight to push his foot deeper into Robert’s groin or lower stomach area for approximately 8 seconds while the three other Defendants surrounding Robert continued to restrain Robert’s upper body.
Defendant Walrath then joined the assault on Robert’s groin area by holding at least one of Robert’s legs to prevent him from closing them to protect himself.
Thereafter, Defendant Anzalone proceeded to punch Robert in the stomach. Defendants Walrath and Farina then forcibly restrained Robert’s legs and feet with their hands as Robert lay on his back on the examination table, while at the same time other Defendants, including Defendants Kingsley and Anzalone, applied pressure to Robert’s upper body area for an extended period, further restricting his ability to breathe.
When Robert’s body began writhing, Defendant Farina punched Robert three times in the area between Robert’s buttocks and upper thighs.
While Defendant Farina was delivering those punches to Robert’s right side, Defendant Walrath delivered multiple punches to Robert’s left side
While Robert remained on his back on the examination table, with his lower ribcage area visibly extended, Defendant Anzalone struck Robert’s stomach twice with his hands, provoking no visible response from Robert.
After being prompted by another Defendant, Defendant Anzalone then gave Robert a sternum rub.2 Robert’s stomach rose up, demonstrating that he was still responsive to pain.
Defendants, including Defendant Galliher, then placed Robert’s ankles in leg cuff restraints (also known as “leg irons”) while Robert remained on his back on the examination table with his hands restrained behind him.
For an extended time thereafter, Defendant Kingsley kept one of his hands on Robert’s neck and his other hand on Robert’s left arm, while Defendant Anzalone used one of his hands to restrain Robert’s right shoulder. During this period, Robert’s body writhed again with his ribcage visibly extended (see Figure 12 below), and Defendant Anzalone intermittently used his free hand to poke the side of Brooks’ stomach and strike the side of Brooks’ ribcage.
Defendant Anzalone then shifted his weight to push his other hand down harder on Robert’s right shoulder. Next, Defendants Kinglsey and Anzalone forcefully yanked Robert upright into a sitting position at the edge of the examination table by pulling up on his shoulders while Defendant Anzalone simultaneously dug his fist into Robert’s lower stomach area.
Defendant Kingsley and Defendant Anzalone held Robert by the back of his neck to allow Defendant Anzalone to deliver a hard, closed-fist punch to Robert’s stomach (see Figure 13 below). Defendant Anzalone stopped supporting the right side of Robert’s body as he stepped away to retrieve rubber gloves, leaving Robert to struggle to hold himself fully upright
Defendant Anzalone approached Robert once again and grabbed the front of the neck hole of Robert’s shirt with his now-gloved hand. Defendants Anzalone and Kingsley then forcefully yanked Robert into a standing position, lifted Robert’s feet and body up off the ground by Robert’s arms and shirt, shoved Robert into a closed window shade in the corner of the medical examination room, and pushed their knees into the back of his legs.
Robert remained in the corner for an extended period, during which time Defendants Kinglsey, Kessler, and Anzalone continued to push Robert into the wall, apparently committing other abuses that are not visible on camera.
Robert was eventually pushed down onto his knees, remaining in that position until Defendant Anzalone wrapped both of his arms around Robert’s torso and violently jolted Robert’s entire body up off the ground.
Thereafter, Defendants moved Robert back to the examination table, where two Defendants removed Robert’s pants as Defendant Anzalone gave Robert another sternum rub, which this time provoked no apparent response.
By approximately 9:32 p.m., Robert lay motionless and apparently unresponsive, with his pants removed and his socks hanging halfway off his feet, and Defendants finally ended their beating.
Robert was eventually transported to Wynn Hospital in Utica, New York, where he was pronounced dead in the early hours of December 10, 2024.
The On-Scene Defendants who were not actively beating Robert at any given time casually entered and exited the room where Robert’s assault was underway, posted up in the open doorway of the room, or milled about in the hallway immediately outside the room, while nonchalantly watching Robert’s beating, hearing Robert’s abuse, and engaging in conversation with one another.
In the video footage of Robert’s fatal beating, the On-Scene Defendants at times appeared to be smiling or laughing and at other times appeared to be bored. Notably, none of the On-Scene Defendants in the footage appeared to be at all concerned at any time about what was being done to Robert or about the fact that Robert was plainly deteriorating to a state of unconsciousness.
Despite seeing, hearing, and otherwise knowing that Robert was being beaten to death, all the On-Scene Defendants failed to intervene to stop Robert’s assault at any time, despite having ample opportunity to do so.
All the On-Scene Defendants were likewise deliberately indifferent to Robert’s obvious need for critical medical care that could have saved his life.”
The Brooks family issued a statement after the guard pleaded guilty.
“We are grateful that the special prosecutor obtained these significant plea agreements,” said Robert Brooks Jr., the son of Robert Brooks Sr., “It is important to us to see my father’s killers publicly admit what they have done and face severe consequences.”
“These pleas help us know that some measure of justice is served,” said
Jared Ricks, a brother of Robert Brooks Sr., said the pleas “help us know that some measure of justice is served.” He said the family is eager to see the other guards held accountable at trial.
After the death, Gov. Kathy Hochul named a new superintendent for the facility. She also announced a variety of prison reforms.
Hochul has ordered 18 state employees involved in the beating to be fired. Several have resigned.
Several of the corrections officers are defendants in lawsuits alleging other cases of abuse against inmates, including one contending the Marcy prison has a “beat-up squad.”
The union representing corrections officers, the state Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, has denounced the actions of the officers involved in the beating.
Brooks had been held in the Mohawk Correctional Facility, records show, but was moved the day of the beating to the Marcy prison. He had been transferred for his “safety,” a state prison system investigator testified, since he had been involved in altercations with other inmates.
The Marcy prison is a medium-security facility, about seven miles west of Utica.
