I guess this has nothing to do with race either.
What's Wrong With Florida's Prisons?
The shocking verdict came down despite a half hour of videotape that showed the guards hitting and kicking the 14-year-old, Martin Lee Anderson, and holding their hands over his mouth for as long as five minutes at a time, while the nurse stood by and watched. The jury seemed persuaded by the first and widely discredited autopsy report that blamed the boy's death on a sickle-cell condition, even though a second autopsy ordered by the state had ruled Anderson died from suffocation (the Justice Department has since announced it will investigate whether federal civil rights violations charges should be brought in the case). "It's wrong!" Anderson's mother, Gina Jones, shouted as she stormed out of the Panama City courtroom after the verdict was read. The Anderson decision was reminiscent of another bewildering verdict five years ago, when three Florida state prison guards charged with stomping 36-year-old inmate Frank Valdes to death in his cell in 1999 were acquitted — even though the guards' boot prints were found all over his back.
Both verdicts were vivid reminders of what critics call the rot of Florida's corrections culture. Despite its Sunshine State image, Florida's prisons and juvenile detention centers are often associated with the more troubled corrections systems of its Deep South neighbors. While no one is asking Florida to coddle its prisoners, adult or juvenile, many fear it has yet to break its dark habit of coddling abusive guards and other officials watching over those prisoners.
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As Villager would say, we saw the tape; and he's completely limp while they're mandhandling him and slamming him to the ground. They did nothing wrong?
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Well, at least they didn't charge them with attempted murder cuz everybody knows that a foot is not a dangerous weapon.
I was floored. I watched that entire trial and when the jury came back with a not guilty verdict I was just floored.
A foot might be, but a shoe is not. Stick to the actual argument and stop with you Stick man bullshit.
But what more could one expect from an anonymous coward who's too punk to even identify himself/herself even on the internet.
I think white people are floored that they have to keep sending us the message that they don't care what the authorities do to us.
what was his oringinal charge to get him in BOOT CAMP?
Unlewes you work in this filed, you really don't understand. " MY Baby Ain't Never Hurt Anyone". Thats until He or She sell drugs That kills a love one, Car Jack YOU, Shots YOUR LOVE ONE because of Misaking Idenity, Raps someone YOU LOVE dearly, should I go on?
I have work in Law Enforcement for 165 years. 6 years with Juvenile Offenders. Do you know what Medication will do to a human body? I have been STAB, Co-workers have been serious injuried and or killed had the hands of a JUVENILE. The Country, States, and citys are letting most violent juvniles go waiting until they get old enough to go to prison, at WHO'S EXPENSE?
whats really going on?
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