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Boot camp review sought
Associated Press
Published October 25, 2007
MIAMI - Three black members of Florida's congressional delegation asked federal officials on Wednesday to investigate the acquittal of eight boot camp employees by an all-white Bay County jury in the death of a black teenager. Reps. Alcee Hastings, D-Miramar, Kendrick Meek, D-Miami, and Corrine Brown, D-Orlando, also asked acting Attorney General Peter Keiser to review the treatment of children in juvenile boot camps in other states. "Significant evidence suggests that discriminatory treatment has frequently occurred at juvenile boot camps. The unfortunate consequence of such treatment has not only been the death of Anderson, but also others in recent years," the three representatives said in a letter to the Justice Department. Florida ended its juvenile boot camp system after 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson died a day after his videotaped encounter with the seven guards, who kneed, hit and dragged his limp body around the exercise yard of the Panama City camp. The guards and a boot camp nurse were acquitted.
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by Issywise
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10/25/07 07:04 AM
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The LA cops beat Rodney like a dog, but the suburban white jury thought he deserved to be flogged. The kid was brought to the bootcamp by him mom, so he deserved what he got...come on sing along: We're American were every jury is black or white.
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Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
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