FL boot camp guards kill teen - first report: "sickle cell disease" denied [View All]

[Julius Civitatus]

Another mind-bending horror story from Florida:

Guards suffocated teen at boot camp, autopsy finds

TAMPA, Florida (AP) -- A 14-year-old boy beaten by guards at a juvenile boot camp died because the guards suffocated him, a medical examiner said Friday.

The findings of the second autopsy on Martin Lee Anderson conflict with the initial ruling from a different medical examiner that the boy died from complications of sickle cell trait, a usually benign blood disorder.

The videotape shows Anderson being kneed, struck and dragged by guards on his first day at the Bay County Sheriff's boot camp for juvenile offenders. He was eventually taken to a Pensacola hospital, where he died a few hours later, on January 6.

No one has been arrested in connection with the death, which sparked protests at the state Capitol, forced lawmakers to scrap the military-style camps and led to the resignation of the state's top law enforcement officer.

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Watch the VIDEO here (warning: it's disturbing):

http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2006/05/060505bootcamp2.shtml (real media)

or here:

http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_125144809.html (Flash video)