South Carolina Statue Honoring Black Hero Robert Smalls Will Stare Down ... wife to live there when she was widowed. Smalls would see a new South Carolina constitution in 1895 wipe out African ...

A group studying where to put South Carolina’s first Statehouse monument to an individual African American has decided Robert Smalls’ statue should be staring down a notorious white supremacist.

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The family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death last month at an upstate New York prison, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the 17 officers under investigation.

The son of Robert Brooks Sr. said in a federal lawsuit Wednesday that his father's attackers "systematically and casually beat him to death."

The news reports about and video of the New York prison treatment of Robert Brooks, a Black man from Greece who died after being beaten by white corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility, have shaken the community in some ways.

New York Attorney General recuses herself from investigation into the beating death of Robert L. Brooks. Onondaga District Attorney appointed to handle the case.

Brooks was in his seventh year of a 12-year sentence for stabbing his longtime girlfriend in 2016. He died on Dec. 10, 2024, the day after the beating. In body-worn camera footage released late last month, officers can be seen punching and stomping on Brooks, as well lifting him by the neck in a chokehold.

Family of Robert Brooks and their attorneys held a press conference to announce the filing of a civil rights lawsuit following Mr. Brooks’ December 2024 fatal beating by correctional officers at Marcy Correctional Facility.

Multiple state, FBI and justice department investigations are underway into the disturbing beating of inmate Robert Brooks by new state corrections officers.