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Killing Of Robert Brooks
On December 9, 2024, Robert Brooks, a 43 year old black man, was transferred from Mohawk Correctional Facility to Marcy Correctional Facility, both in New York state, where he was repeatedly beaten by prison officers. Brooks died from his injuries the following morning on December 10 at Wynn Hospital in Utica, New York. Body camera footage showed that Brooks was handcuffed and had a prior facial injury and appeared to be compliant before being fatally beaten. Brooks died due to compression of the neck and multiple blunt force injuries. After an internal review, Governor of New York State Kathy Hochul directed the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (NYSDOCCS) to fire 13 officers and a prison nurse involved in the incident. On February 20, 2025, murder, gang assault manslaughter, and tampering with evidence charges were brought against six prison officers. 17 employees, including four sergeants and two nurses, have been suspended. Four others face ...
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Marcy Correctional Facility
Marcy Correctional Facility is a men's medium-security state prison in the town of Marcy, Oneida County, New York. Constructed across the street from Mid-State Correctional Facility and the Central New York Psychiatric Center, it opened on December 29, 1988. Abuse of inmates Marcy was the subject of an October 2022 Correctional Association of New York oversight report released in 2023 that included a two-day monitoring visit and 117 interviews with inmates. Findings included poor food quality, a lack of hygienic goods, poor healthcare amenities due to staffing vacancies, racialized verbal and physical abuse against Black inmates, widespread violence against inmates by staff, and an unresponsive grievance process. On December 9, 2024, corrections officers fatally beat Robert Brooks while he was handcuffed in a medical examination room. The killing of Brooks prompted renewed scrutiny and investigations over Marcy Correctional Facility's history of abuse by staff. Some state la ...
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Onondaga County, New York
Onondaga County ( ) is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 476,516. The county seat is Syracuse, New York, Syracuse. The county is part of the Central New York region of the state. Onondaga County is the core of the Syracuse metropolitan area, Syracuse Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The name ''Onondaga'' derives from the name of the Native American tribe (Native American), tribe indigenous to this area, one of the original Iroquois, Five Nations of the ''Haudenosaunee''. They call themselves (Endonym, autonym) Onondaga people, ''Onoda'gega'', sometimes spelled ''Onontakeka.'' The word means "People of the Hills." Sometimes the term is ''Onondagaono'' ("The People of the Hills"). The federally recognized Onondaga Nation has a Indian reservation, reservation within the county, on which they have self-government. When counties were established in New York ...
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Filmed Killings By Law Enforcement
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screenwriting, casting, pre-production, shooting, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience, which may result in a film release and exhibition. The process is nonlinear, in that the filmmaker typically shoots the script out of sequence, repeats shots as needed, and puts them together through editing later. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world, and uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques to make theatrical films, episodic films for television and streaming platforms, music videos, and promotional and educational films. Although filmmaking originally involved the use of film, most film productions are now digital. Today, filmmaking refer ...
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Filmed Deaths In The United States
Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a Film, motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, beginning with an initial story, idea, or commission. Production then continues through screenwriting, Casting (performing arts), casting, pre-production, Principal photography, shooting, Sound recording and reproduction, sound recording, post-production, and screening the finished product before an audience, which may result in a film release and exhibition. The process is nonlinear, in that the filmmaker typically shoots the script out of sequence, repeats shots as needed, and puts them together through editing later. Filmmaking occurs in a variety of economic, social, and political contexts around the world, and uses a variety of technologies and cinematic techniques to make theatrical films, episodic films for television and streaming platforms, music videos, and promotional and educational films. Although filmmaking originally ...
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December 2024 Crimes In The United States
December is the twelfth and final month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. December's name derives from the Latin word ''decem'' (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the calendar of Romulus , which began in March. The winter days following December were not included as part of any month. Later, the months of January and February were created out of the monthless period and added to the beginning of the calendar, but December retained its name.Macrobius, ''Saturnalia'', tr. Percival Vaughan Davies (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969), book I, chapters 12–13, pp. 89–95. In Ancient Rome, as one of the four Agonalia, this day in honour of Sol Indiges was held on December 11, as was Septimontium. Dies natalis (birthday) was held at the temple of Tellus on December 13, Consualia was held on December 15, Saturnalia was held December 17–23, Opiconsivia was held on December 19, Divalia was held on ...
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2024 In New York (state)
The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in New York. Incumbents State government *Governor: Kathy Hochul ( D) *Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York Events * January 3 – A court in New York releases unsealed documents containing the associates list of Jeffrey Epstein to the public. * January 4 – 2024 New York City Subway derailment *January 26 – The U.S. Justice Department finds former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo liable for sexual harassment. *February 13 – 2024 New York's 3rd congressional district special election: In the U.S., Democrat Tom Suozzi wins the special election in his former seat which was vacated following the expulsion of Republican George Santos. *February 16 – New York civil investigation of The Trump Organization: Former U.S. president Donald Trump is fined over $350 million by the New York Supreme Court and temporarily barred from business in New York as a result of The Trump Organization's financial fraud. *March 7 – New York Sta ...
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2024 Controversies In The United States
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the Hindu-Arabic digit Brahmic numerals represented 1, 2, and 3 with as many lines. 4 was simplified by joining its four lines into a cross that looks like the modern plus sign. The Shunga would add a horizontal line on top of the digit, and the Kshatrapa and Pallava evolved the digit to a point where the speed of writing was a secondary concern. The Arabs' 4 still had the early concept of the cross, but for the sake of efficiency, was made in one stroke by connecting the "western" end to the "northern" end; the "eastern" end was finished off with a curve. The Europeans dropped the finishing curve and gradually made the digit less cursive, ending up with a digit very close to the original Brahmin cross. While the shape of the character for ...
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List Of Unarmed African Americans Killed By Law Enforcement Officers In The United States
This is a list of African Americans reportedly killed while unarmed by non-military Law enforcement in the United States, law enforcement officers in the United States. Events are listed whether they took place in the line of duty or not, and regardless of reason or method. The listing documents the occurrence of a death, making no implications regarding wrongdoing or justification on the part of the person killed or officer involved. Killings are arranged by date of the incident that caused death. Different death dates, if known, are noted in the description. Before 2000 2000–2009 2010–2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 See also * SayHerName * Driving while black * Shooting bias * Racism against African Americans * The talk (racism in the United States) * List of police violence incidents during George Floyd protests * I can't breathe * Police brutality in the United States * Police use of deadly force in th ...
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Killing Of Messiah Nantwi
On March 1, 2025, prisoner Messiah Nantwi was killed at the Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, New York after being beaten by prison guards who were part of a correctional emergency response team. On April 16, 2025, two guards connected to Nantwi's death were charged with murder. Overall, 10 prison guards have been criminally charged in connection with Nantwi's death. Since Nantwi's death, 15 staff members from both the Mid-State Correctional and Marcy Correctional Facility and its neighboring Marcy Correctional Facility have been either placed on leave or suspended. 10 of the correctional officers who were involved in the beating death of Nantwi were directly employed by the Mid-State Correctional Facility, while the other 5 were employed by the Marcy Correctional Facility, but were working at the Mid-State Correctional Facility at the time of Nantwi's death. Two of the 5 Marcy officers were charged with manslaughter. The two prison guards who were charged with second-degr ...
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2025 New York Corrections Officers' Strike
In February and March 2025, officers employed by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) went on a wildcat strike. This strike was not supported by the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA), which is the union and collective bargaining agency for DOCCS employees. Public employees in New York state are barred from striking by law. Strikers demanded improved working conditions and the repeal of a state law restricting the use of solitary confinement. Governor Kathy Hochul deployed the New York National Guard to prisons in the absence of the striking officers, and prisons were placed on long-term lockdown during the strike. Nine prisoners died during the strike, among them Messiah Nantwi, although for some it was unclear if the strike contributed to the death. The first attempted deal was negotiated between the state and the NYSCOPBA, but was rejected by the strikers. The state then made a second o ...
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Plea Bargain
A plea bargain, also known as a plea agreement or plea deal, is a legal arrangement in criminal law where the defendant agrees to plead guilty or no contest to a charge in exchange for concessions from the prosecutor. These concessions can include a reduction in the severity of the charges, the dismissal of some charges, or a more lenient sentencing recommendation. Plea bargaining serves as a mechanism to expedite the resolution of criminal cases, allowing both the prosecution and the defense to avoid the time, expense, and uncertainty of a trial. It is a prevalent practice in the United States, where it resolves the vast majority of criminal cases, and has been adopted in various forms in other legal systems worldwide. Plea bargains can take different forms, such as ''charge bargaining'', where a defendant pleads guilty to a lesser offense, or ''sentence bargaining'', where the expected sentence is agreed upon before a guilty plea. In addition, count bargaining involves pleading gu ...
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