Summary
Footage released by the New York Attorney General shows corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility brutally beating handcuffed inmate Robert Brooks on December 9.
Brooks, restrained throughout the 15-minute assault, died the next day, with preliminary autopsy findings citing asphyxia and actions of others as the cause of death.
14 staff members have been terminated or suspended. Some officers failed to properly activate body cameras, violating state policy.
Advocates highlight systemic abuse and racial discrimination in New York prisons, while the investigation continues.
It’s the difference between an officer (a person charged with representing the state for the purposes of law enforcement) and a gendarme. One can add state security guards and state security soldiers to this.
In the USA the problem is with stuffing all these kinds of responsibility onto the same kind of people.
There should be an unarmed (maybe only with shockers and batons) kind of police, doing all the usual work, and gendarmes, carrying, sorry for the tautology, arms.
State security guards’ role in USA is taken by either national guard or USMC, apparently, but I’m not an American, so can be mistaken. Same with state security soldiers. No problem with these parts, I think.
They say that police also gets shot at easily, well, that’s to be expected, a weapon makes you not only a bigger threat, but also a bigger target. So police should be disarmed (except for pepper spray, shockers, batons, maybe pneumatic pistols shooting rubber bullets, you get the idea) and wear uniform clearly different from the new gendarmerie, which will be armed and will be used in cases where it’s required.