Three officers who the New York State Attorney General’s Office claims were present when Robert Brooks was beaten are named in other lawsuits alleging brutal beatings at the hands of prison guards.
In documents reviewed by TMZ … Nicholas Anzalone , Glenn Trombly and Anthony Farina — all three suspended pending further investigation by New York’s Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner — are named as defendants in lawsuits filed by incarcerated or formally incarcerated individuals.
In a lawsuit filed in September 2022, a man named Adam Bauer sued Anzalone along with several other correctional officers … after he claimed he suffered an unprovoked beating by one for smoking a cigarette in a bathroom in 2020.
Bauer claims he submitted to a search after he was caught with the contraband … but, when he turned his back, the officer allegedly hit him multiple times…