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.
Maybe it wasn’t entirely fair to claim only in America, but it is very widespread in USA, and this case took it to the ultimate step where it became lethal.
I do, and unfortunately I’ve heard a very similar story here from Denmark, an emigrant who was held in detention (isolation) for 3 days, without seeing a judge, and then released.
I’m so sad these things happen, I don’t know why people don’t believe you, but I guess you have to have had close up experiences with life on the bottom of society.
You probably wouldn’t have been treated like that, if they thought you could afford to throw lawyers after them afterwards. It’s always the weak that get abused.
These people are in a position of tremendous power over other people, that power easily corrupts them to think they are entitled to abuse you if they don’t like you.
What you experienced is hopefully extreme, my friend at least got water, but he too was withheld from medication, and his condition got clearly worse after the experience.
So I absolutely believe you 100%.
These institution needs to be monitored, this kind of abuse is unacceptable.
You absolutely were, and my guess is that you are not alone, this is something they do to break you, to make you “behave” as they want you to. To make you “respect” their authority.
I don’t know you, but I know my friend, and I am pretty sure he is telling the truth, and your stories are extremely similar.
If “bottom of society” means peacefully growing weed in my own apartment without being involves with junkies or alkies or any of the other such people who live around here?
Finland treats anyone even remotely positive about cannabis as being a crack-addict who’s ready to sell their own grandma for a hit.
It’s not that they didn’t fear I can’t get a lawyer, it’s just that they knew no-one would care. My mom’s response to me explaining this was something that indirectly had the implication of “well maybe you deserved it.” She said “I can’t know what happened there”. After I said I can show the evidence and sent her the photos.
Nope. Can’t accept it. See the logic in Finland is “if he didn’t deserve it, he wouldn’t have gotten it”. Genuinely. It’s like stamped on everyone’s forehead when I talk about this.
The cop don’t fucking care man. We don’t have the sort of American spirit I’m jealous of, one of the rare good things. The outrageous about injustice, knowing cops are shit. Well they’re arguably worse than ours, but it’s different. Ours are authoritarian because no-one has kept them in check, at all. The local drug cops brazenly violate all sorts of laws.
The fuckers genuinely admitted at my door they don’t have a warrant. They work differently in Finland, but basically these cops at my door didn’t have the rank to decide on a home search warrant (verbal) whereas more senior ones do. They said “it’ll take us like 5 min to get one”, I said “please do” and they just grabbed my door and came in.
I started filming instantly and they grabbed my phone from me:
https://www.hs.fi/suomi/art-2000009654524.html
No guessing needed, they’re literally came in asking “are you ready to talk yet?” at one point.
And their treatment of me didn’t change what I had to say a single word. There was no justification for what they did, but they just lie and I have zero recourse.
Unfortunately I can’t read the article because there’s a paywall.
But already the headline is bad enough! How the fuck can they claim you aren’t allowed to film in your own home?
At least they lost the case.
Seems like Finland is a lot worse than here.
Usually police is pretty relaxed, and I doubt many policemen would make a house search based on the small of cannabis alone.
I have found that the flowers of the hob plant used for beer has much the same smell. Saying it’s just that, could at least give them plausible deniability.
https://korkeinoikeus.fi/fi/index/ennakkopaatokset/kko202345.html
Here’s the link to the Finnish Supreme Court decision for it which you can use translate on.
The ridiculous thing is their excuse about the smell. Nope. I had a purple led for some basil on my balcony, and a regular AC device. Which could be seen from the street. Those were basically their real reasons. Hell, a trained drug dog couldn’t have pinpointed the smell to my door in this building. There’s at least a grower, a seller and a buyer on each floor. Mine has two growers that I aware of. And the building isn’t that big.
Because the concept of freedom of speech really isn’t understood that well by most. People speak English to a degree pretty well, but a lot are intellectually too lazy to actually learn things in English, so theirs cultural and societal understanding isn’t exactly up to international standards, and that’s just a polite way for me to phrase “the country has a majority of low-brow nationalist racists”.
Like casual racism is shockingly acceptable. I’ve been told off and had a row for speaking against racism for more times than I can remember anyone being even slightly offended about someone’s racism.
Like even the weed smoking hippies girls are casual racists, you know? Not to the point of like saying or acting differently in ant way, but in like an internalised stereotyping thing.
I’m honestly not exaggerating when I say Finns still treat weed users as worse than how people treat the lowest crack and meth addicts in the US.
I was genuinely not invited to weddings of my childhood friends — friends whom I had carried out of a party rolled into a mat like some massive kebab, with tequila vomit as the sauce — becsuse “he’s a drug addict”.
None of these friends have ever seen me even lose my balance becsuse of inebriation. Yet they discriminate. Because Finna are rulewhores.
Even at 5am in a completely empty city on a street where you can see 200m neither way, most people won’t jaywalk and even in their drunken aggressive stupor, wait for the light.
It’s like they just can’t accept the god of bureaucracy to have made a mistake. Ever. It’s the same thing with all the officers and doctors and whatnot.
Love the country, hate the people.
And it’s not like we don’t already have systems that are supposed to hold authorities accountable. But if no-one believes that authorities ever do anything wrong, then there’s very little point to those systems.