New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for criminal charges to be filed and arrests to be made after an autopsy report determined Black inmate Robert Brooks’ fatal beating at the hands of correctional officers in December to be a homicide.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said authorities should now move quickly and pursue criminal charges against those responsible for the death of Robert Brooks.

The autopsy reported that Brooks died from “compression of the neck and multiple blunt-impact injuries,” a family lawyer said.

The death of Robert Brooks, a Black man brutally beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report.

An autopsy report has determined that Robert Brooks, a Black inmate in New York who was brutally beaten by correctional officers, died by homicide.

The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family said Wednesday. The report issued by the county medical examiner's office last week concludes that the cause of Robert Brooks' death in December was compression of the neck and multiple

The beating death of an inmate allegedly at the hands of correction guards at upstate New York prison is leading to calls for systematic changes.

While the horrors of abuse at Marcy Correctional are only just starting to enter the public eye, the Correctional Association of New York has known since 2022 and has been trying to blow the whistle ever since,