NY CORRECTIONS Officer decreases plea for the death of inmates Robert Brooks

Associated Press

Utica, NY – A New York correction officer admitted to court on Wednesday that he had cleaned up blood stains from an inmate whose fatal attack on Bodycam videos was recorded in order to hide evidence.

Nicholas Gentile acquaintances December 9 death of Robert Brooks In the Marcy Correctional facility. The publicly published video of The Assault, which shows that officers beat Brooks while his hands were tied up behind his back, condemned and demanded reforms.

Non -Jude, 36, belonged among the 10 correction officers who were charged in February in connection with Brook's death. Six officers were charged with the second degree murder. Gentiles was charged with physical evidence due to a crime for manipulation.

Under the survey of the judge and a public prosecutor, Gentile admitted that he knew about the attack of co -guards, cleaned up the blood of Brooks and did not document it.

As part of a plea contract, gentile was sentenced to a one -year conditional dismissal, which means that he can avoid prison hours if he brings his job back and obeys the law. He also refrained from making a calling.

He declined to give an explanation in court.

A former officer for murder in attack, Christopher Walrath, owed guilty because of manslaughter first degree At the beginning of this month.

Three other prison workers have made agreements, but according to the public prosecutor's office, they have not yet entered this request.

Brooks began in 2017 with a 12-year prison sentence for assault first degree and was moved to Marcy on December 9, a prison that was about 290 kilometers northwest of New York City.

The special prosecutor William Fitzpatrick said that Brooks was attacked three times that night, the last of which was the fatal attack on Bodycam film material. The 43 -year -old Brooks was declared dead the next day.

Fitzpatrick, District Prosecutor of Onondaga County The death of Messiah Nantwi on March 1 at another Marcy Lockup, the mid-state correctional facility.

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