And family members and friends have launched a five-day vigil and hunger strike to mark the first anniversary of the death of Samuel Harrell, an African-American man who died on April 21, 2015, after as many as 20 corrections officers kicked, punched and threw him down a flight of stairs while he was incarcerated at the Fishkill Correctional Facility in Beacon, New York. The group of officers who assaulted Harrell are known as the “Beat Up Squad.” Activists gathered outside the prison Thursday night, where Jeff Golden spoke out.

Jeff Golden: “Exactly a year ago here tonight, a gentle 30-year-old man named Sam Harrell, who was doing time on a drug charge, was brutally murdered by as many as 20 corrections officers, all of whom are still on active duty.”