Three officers who the New York Attorney General's Office claims were there Robert Brooks has been named in other lawsuits alleging brutal beatings by prison guards.
In documents reviewed by TMZ… Nicholas Anzalone, Glenn Trombly And Anthony Farina — all three suspended pending further investigation by the New York City Department of Corrections and the Community Supervision Commissioner — are named as defendants in lawsuits filed by incarcerated or formally incarcerated people.
In a lawsuit filed in September 2022, a man named Adam Bauer sued Anzalone along with several other correctional officers … after claiming he was unfairly beaten by one for smoking a cigarette in a bathroom in 2020.
Bauer claims he submitted to a search after being caught with the contraband… But when he turned around, the officer allegedly punched him several times.
After the initial encounter, the lawsuit says, several officers – including Anzalone – came in and either kicked him or stood by and watched their colleagues.
Later, as he said officers took him to a local hospital, Bauer said Anzalone was “kicking.” Bauer claims the men involved covered up the incident by telling a series of lies to hospital staff.
Sergeant Glenn Trombly has been sued twice – including once for a 2020 incident in which a man was named Caleb Bause claimed a security guard used pepper spray on him for no reason.
Bause says he ran into the dorm area but was directed by the officer into an anteroom…and when several other correctional officers arrived, Bause claims he told them he had been attacked by Bause.
Those officers included Trombly and Farina… who Bause claims at least watched him get beaten – although he's not sure if they were actually involved in the attack on him.
Attorney General of the State of New York
The third lawsuit — and the second involving Trombly — was filed in 2018 by a man with names Equarn White in the Southern District of the United States of New York. It is handwritten by White.
White alleges that in 2015 – before Trombly moved to Marcy Correctional Facility, where Robert Brooks was an inmate – White was incarcerated at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, NY, where Trombly worked.
According to White, Trombly and several other officers also beat him in an empty classroom…White claimed Trombly held him down while another officer repeatedly stepped on his testicles.
As you know, this was a video showing officers repeatedly punching, choking and kicking Robert Brooks published yesterday. One person who had their body camera on during the incident was Glenn Trombly – who appeared to be standing by and watching the brutal attack.
We reached out to the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association for comment…no response yet.