Fla. NAACP Leaders Call For Arrests Of Juvenile Boot Camp Guards

[The Straight Story]

Fla. NAACP Leaders Call For Arrests Of Juvenile Boot Camp Guards

POSTED: 9:45 pm EST February 25, 2006

PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- Florida NAACP leaders and hundreds of Florida Panhandle residents Saturday demanded the immediate arrests of juvenile boot camp guards seen on a security video kneeing, kicking and dragging a 14-year-old boy who later died.

The group also called for a nurse who stood by and watched for 30 minutes as the nine guards handled Martin Lee Anderson to lose her job and her medical license.

"You watched that video tape. If that was Gov. Bush's child, how long would it have taken for those law enforcement officers to be arrested?" Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Anderson's family, said to cheers from more than 400 people who attended a community forum.

Florida NAACP State Conference President Adori Obi Nweze said the forum could be followed by marches and other protests aimed at Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen and other government leaders.

Panama City residents packed the aisles and stood outside the Macedonia Baptist Church for the three-hour meeting, which included an impassioned plea from Anderson's parents to help them find justice.

"I have a lot of anger going out toward that nurse. I hate her. She stood by and watched my baby being tortured by all those guards. My baby was cold-blooded murdered," said Gina Jones, the teen's mother.

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[Erika]

1. In Idaho, if it had been Gov Bush's kid she would have been

in prison under the 3 strikes law.

This was just a nobody kid, he got no chances.

[henslee]

2. He want a bad kid either.