Overview

• Prosecutors played body‑camera footage and a State Police investigator’s walkthrough showing the escort to the infirmary and the recorded beating, with body cams capturing 30 minutes of silent, passively saved video.
• Former officers Mathew Galliher, Nicholas Kieffer and David Kingsley are on trial in Utica on second‑degree murder and first‑degree manslaughter charges, with proceedings expected to last two to three weeks.
• Special prosecutor William Fitzpatrick told jurors the guards acted like a gang, describing punching, kneeing, pepper‑spraying, choking and pinning during the assault.
• The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide caused by neck compression and multiple blunt‑impact injuries; Brooks, 43, died less than an hour after the attack at a Utica hospital.
• Six guards have pleaded guilty and three more have agreed to cooperate, with another guard set for a separate trial in January, while defense attorneys argue the three defendants neither caused Brooks’ death nor acted with depraved indifference.