Six correction officers are being charged with second-degree murder in the beating death of inmate Robert Brooks.

Brooks was beaten inside Marcy Correctional Facility on Dec. 9 and died the next day at a hospital. Body camera footage showed correction officers punching and kicking Brooks and grabbing his collar. Other staff members were seen watching the assault.

The indictment said Brooks was restrained, choked and gagged at various times, as well as being forcibly moved and kicked. The officers did nothing to stop the beatings and did not immediately seek medical assistance.

Brooks had injuries all over his body, including his head, neck and chest.

Nicholas Anzalone, Anthony Farina, Matthew Galliher, David Kingsley and Christopher Walrath have been charged with second-degree murder. There is also a sixth person that has been indicted, but that person has not yet been picked up by police. The six are also being charged with first-degree manslaughter and gang assault.

Anzalone is also charged with offering a false instrument for filing because he provided a false use of force report that Brooks was not attacked.

Correction Officers David Walters. Michael Fisher and Michael Mashaw have been charged with second-degree manslaughter because they saw the beatings and did not intervene, according to the indictment. Correction Officer Nicholas Gentile was charged with tampering with physical evidence because investigators said he cleaned up Brooks’ blood stains to cover up the assault. The indictment alleges that Walters specifically told the nurse not to enter the medical exam room to help Brooks.

It was emotional in the courtroom. At one point, a woman screamed, “murderer.” A man said, “This isn’t justice.”

The Onondaga County District Attorney’s Office is handling the investigation because Attorney General Letitia James has recused herself. Her office is already representing four of the officers. Some have been defendants in brutality lawsuits other prisoners filed.

Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said in a news conference that the sixth correction officer charged with murder was not in court because of a “misunderstanding” with his attorney. He is set to surrender to authorities and will be arraigned on Feb. 24.

Fitzpatrick said the beatings shown on the video are disturbing, but it goes beyond that.

“To me, what’s disturbing is the sense of normalcy – the way that everybody was just going about their business as if this was acceptable behavior,” he said.

Robert Brooks Jr. also spoke at the news conference, saying his father’s death will not be in vain.

“These men murdered my father. It was on video. The whole world got to see it. These men need to be prosecuted and convicted,” he said.

Bail was set at $250,000 bond for many of the defendants, which upset the family.

Brooks’ father, Robert Ricks, said his son was sentenced to 12 years. He did eight years, and he was looking forward to getting out.

“He was preparing to come home – make a difference in his community, to make a difference in my life, to make a difference in his little sister’s life, to make a difference in his big brother’s life. He was denied that opportunity. He didn’t get to come home.”