Stephen A. Smith called for the identification and arrest of the officers involved in the beating death of Robert Brooks, a man imprisoned in New York.
More than a dozen officers — and a nurse — face termination over Brooks’s death on Dec. 10 at the Marcy Correctional Facility. Body cam footage from the beating recently surfaced online, prompting widespread backlash. Though it has not been made clear what led to the physical altercation — which happened while Brooks was still in handcuffs — Gov. Kathy Hochul has called for the firing of the officers after an internal review.
On Monday’s episode of The Stephen A. Smith Show, an especially fiery Smith called the incident worse than the infamous beating of Rodney King and even worse than the death of George Floyd.
“What the hell do you mean ‘termination’?” Smith said after reading a report that the officers could be fired. “Why aren’t they arrested now? It’s on video! You know who it is! You’ve articulated it’s 13 of them and a nurse! At the very least, where’s the arrest of the officers we saw choking him, lifting him up by the neck, kicking him, hitting him with a shoe, punching him in his midsection and beyond, kicking him in the groin? Where are the arrests? Excuse my language — what the fuck do you mean ‘termination’? Where’
“I don’t give a damn about a termination! Bump a termination! Who cares? They need to be arrested now! There needs to be a perp walk now! We need their faces; we need to know their names; we need to show the world who they are! They’re murderers! They’re murderers! The video’s right there!”
Watch above.