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Eight defendants have been acquitted of manslaughter in the case of a teenager who died after being punched and kicked at a Florida boot camp.
Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died a day after the beating was administered by guards at the camp in January 2006.
A jury took only 90 minutes to decide the seven instructors and one nurse at the Bay County boot camp in north-west Florida were not guilty of his death.
Video tape shows the teenager being hit and dragged about by the guards.
Speaking after the not guilty verdict, the family's lawyer told journalists: "You kill a dog, you go to jail - you kill a little black boy and nothing happens."
Had the all-white jury found the eight defendants guilty, they could have faced up to 30 years in jail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7042858.stm
Black man still oppressed and facing injustice, that's western equality and democracy :hmm:
(p.s. can mod move this to world affairs when it opens)
Martin Lee Anderson, 14, died a day after the beating was administered by guards at the camp in January 2006.
A jury took only 90 minutes to decide the seven instructors and one nurse at the Bay County boot camp in north-west Florida were not guilty of his death.
Video tape shows the teenager being hit and dragged about by the guards.
Speaking after the not guilty verdict, the family's lawyer told journalists: "You kill a dog, you go to jail - you kill a little black boy and nothing happens."
Had the all-white jury found the eight defendants guilty, they could have faced up to 30 years in jail.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7042858.stm
Black man still oppressed and facing injustice, that's western equality and democracy :hmm:
(p.s. can mod move this to world affairs when it opens)