8 former guards charged with manslaughter in death of teenager at Florida boot camp

AP WIRE ^ | 11/28/06

[Brian Mosely]

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP)

[Brian Mosely]

URGENT
8 ex-guards charged with manslaughter in boot camp death
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — Eight former juvenile boot camp guards have been charged with aggravated manslaughter in the death of a teenage boy, who was roughed up by the guards during a videotaped altercation, a special prosecutor said Tuesday.
The announcement comes almost 11 months after Martin Lee Anderson collapsed on the exercise yard at the Bay County sheriff’s boot camp in Panama City on Jan. 5. Guards said he was uncooperative and refused to continue participating in exercises that were part of the boot camp’s intake processes.
He died early the next morning in Pensacola.

[Sidebar Moderator]

got a link for this?

[Brian Mosely]

It's off the AP Wire on my desktop...not web based.

[Brian Mosely]

Here's some background....but not the update which is breaking now.

http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/CAPITOLNEWS/611280316

[Sidebar Moderator]

When the link comes out, just let us know

Thanks,
SB

[SteveMcKing]

"another autopsy, requested by State Attorney Mark Ober, a special investigator in the case, said the teen died from suffocation by guards at the boot camp, who forced ammonia tablets into his nose while covering his mouth."

The charge should be murder.

[NRA1995]

We're gonna train the lad.....

[Diverdogz]

Here is a link to a CNN story about the arrests.

[bjs1779]

"What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate"

[floriduh voter]

Florida's a police state. This will go to a jury sympathetic to law enforcement and they'll all get a light sentence. The stuff about 30 years is to make the public think that the state is doing their job. They aren't. The charge for all should have been murder and the nurse charged with accessory to murder.

What they did to Martin Anderson involved considerable violence. When violence is involved, the appropriate charge is MURDER.

Florida is a police state. It's only going to get worse.

[SteveMcKing]

Florida is a police state. It's only going to get worse.

Maybe so, but I've heard the worst stories of random crime from Florida. I-95 acts as a funnel for drifters and fugitives, plus the legendary drug trade along the coastline makes it a dangerous place in general.

The folks I know there all have closed circuit cameras and the strongest security in their homes, and that's within suburban areas... A police state isn't good, but they have to be badass against criminals.

[dljordan]

"Florida is a police state. It's only going to get worse."

I'm waiting for the inevitable "he deserved it, he was defying authority" post.