the mistreatment of people at an immigration removal centre at gatwick airport is the subject of a public inquiry which opened today. it comes after bbc panorama broadcast undercover footage in 2017 showing assaults, humiliation and verbal abuse of detainees by officers at brook house in sussex. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains distressing images from the start. brooke house were ex prisoners and asylum seekers are held before they are deported. in 2017, a custody officer. went undercoverfor 2017, a custody officer. went undercover for the bbc s app panorama, filming incidents like this, a suicidal man put in a joking neck hold. and more. including verbal abuse by staff and detainees
broadcast undercover footage in 2017 showing alleged assaults, humiliation and verbal abuse of detainees by officers at brook house in sussex. this report from our home affairs correspondent tom symonds contains distresing images from the start. brook house, where ex prisoners and asylum seekers are held before they are deported. in 2017, a custody officer went undercover here for the bbc s panorama, filming incidents like this. a man who has taken the drug spice, mocked. and much more, including physical abuse by staff, and detainees suffering mental health breakdowns. that is still a concern, even last year, according
the community is also using social media, filming incidents like, that i think it s helpful because it makes a lot of difference. even though with with the eric garner, people think it didn t serve anything but it did serve something. suppose there was no video, eric garner would have been portrayed as someone in a negative light who is was good for nothing and then their story would just be under the regular. but now we have this evidence, the world has seen the video and when my son was killed at that time we didn t have that so there was no video to be seen. i think i encourage that for both law enforcement and the community. and also i want to add about accountability of the youth. if the young people in the neighborhood see something suspicious going on, not only towards law enforcement but in the community, they have to use