no, not in ANY way shape or form
Guards acquitted in boot camp case
By MELISSA NELSON, Associated Press Writer
Eight former boot camp workers were acquitted of manslaughter Friday in the death of a 14-year-old boy who was videotaped being punched and kicked. The scene sparked outrage and changes in the juvenile system, but it took jurors just 90 minutes to decide it was not a crime.
Anger over the verdict was obvious outside the courtroom, where bystanders screamed "murderer" at former guard Henry Dickens as he described his relief at the verdict.
Martin Lee Anderson died a day after being hit and kicked by Dickens and six other guards as a nurse watched, a 30-minute confrontation that drew protests in the state capital and spelled the end of Florida's system of juvenile boot camps.
"I am truly, truly sorry this happened. Myself, I love kids," said Dickens, 60. He added that Anderson "wasn't beaten. Those techniques were taught to us and used for a purpose."
The defendants testified that they followed the rules at a get-tough facility where young offenders often feigned illness to avoid exercise. Their attorneys said that Anderson died not from rough treatment, but from a previously undiagnosed blood disorder.
The boy's mother, Gina Jones, stormed out of the courtroom. "I cannot see my son no more. Everybody see their family members. It's wrong," she screamed.
"You kill a dog, you go to jail," said her lawyer, Benjamin Crump. "You kill a little black boy and nothing happens." He spoke outside court, which is across the street from the now-closed Bay County boot camp..........
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I say “You kill a dog, you go to jail, OJ Simpson kills a white woman, and he goes free.”
His mother should have had him tested for sickle cell when he was born. His mother is as much at fault as anyone else. Why was she not at the court house the day he was sentenced to the boot camp crying “But he has sickle cell!”
Why doesn’t the US just do away with the military boot camps, officer training and Navy Seal training and THEN let’s have a war!
You idiots have not a clue!
he was a BOY. he didn't join the military - that's different. ONE HAS A CHOICE TO JOIN THE MILITARY AND GO TO BOOT CAMP
this boy was physically abused. he was KICKED and PUNCHED and a nurse stood by and watched it all.
if i'm the idiot here - at least i h ave a f**king soul unlike you - you racist piece of steamin' shite
Oh my God . . .
The nutters are out, aren't they?
He was just a 14 yr. old boy . . . in this country that's still a child. In Iraq that's the right age to fight against trained mercenaries sent by the U.S.
how the F**K can ANYONE think it was ok to kill a 14 year old boy at boot camp? what the F**k were those jurors thinking? just plain old WHAT THE F**K
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