And longtime civil rights attorney Elizabeth Fink has died at the age of 70. Fink served as the lead attorney for the Attica prisoners after the 1971 prison uprising. The rebellion lasted from September 9 to September 13, 1971, and ended after New York state troopers opened fire, killing 43 prisoners and guards and injuring hundreds of others. More recently, Fink represented the cyber-activist Jeremy Hammond. This is Elizabeth Fink speaking about the crackdown by state troopers in the film “Ghosts of Attica.”

Elizabeth Fink: “State troopers just took their clubs and beat them down the stairs, broke people’s legs, hit them on the tibia and broke tibias. On their back, on their head, in their genitals, on their front—you know, wherever they could hit them, that’s where they beat them.”