Police have charged a man in connection with a shooting death that stemmed from an argument in a bar in Rochester's 19th Ward over the weekend.

None of the prison officers appeared to know their body cameras would passively record a vicious beating that led to the death of Robert Brooks.

Multiple corrections officers violently beat Brooks on Dec. 9 in the infirmary at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County, repeatedly punching and kicking him in the groin, abdomen, face and back ...

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Brooks, an inmate from Rochester, died in December after being beaten by corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility.

The death of a shackled inmate at a central New York State prison late last year has been ruled a homicide, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday. Robert ... in Rochester, where local leaders ...

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Rochester, N.Y. (WHAM) — The family of Robert Brooks, alongside community advocates and members of the Rochester Police Accountability Board (PAB), gathered Tuesday at East High School to demand ...

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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 ...