Doctor: Boot Camp Teen Likely Suffocated

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Mar 17, 2006 (AP)— A teen who died after guards punched and kicked him at a boot camp likely was suffocated during the confrontation and was brain dead when he was brought to a hospital, a pathologist told lawmakers Friday.

Dr. Michael Baden observed the second autopsy performed on 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson on Monday in Tampa. He was there on behalf of Anderson's family, who disputes the original autopsy, which found the boy died of complications of sickle cell trait, a usually benign blood disorder many blacks have.
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Surveillance-camera videotape of the altercation at the Panama City boot camp has led some legislators and others to call for the closure of juvenile boot camps. Tampa-area prosecutors investigating the death agree with Baden's assertion that the boy didn't die of natural causes, but have declined to comment further because of the pending probe.

Anderson collapsed while doing exercises during his first day at the camp. The Bay County sheriff's office, which runs the camp, has said the guards were trying to get him to participate after he became uncooperative.

Baden said someone pressed on Anderson's back while he was on the ground which could have kept him from breathing and that a guard could be seen holding a hand over the boy's mouth.

"They did that, according to their report, so that he could inhale the ammonia that they were forcing up his nose" to revive him, Baden said.

He said hospital reports showed that an emergency room monitor indicated severe brain damage when he arrived.
More: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1739547

[xultar]

1. MURDER!

[BlueEyedSon]

3. I saw the video and I looked like murder to me

[hang a left]

7. You are braver that I

I couldn't do it. I will take your word for it.

[acmavm]

4. You betcha. There needs to be some arrests. NOW. n/t

[Broken_Hero]

12. exactly xultar! damn murder...n/t

[tom_paine]

2. Sounds like Halliburton Homeland Detention camp is going to be

Read it, folks. This is our future.

[file83]

8. Not if we can stop it. Never say die, comrade!!

:patriot:
(But I know whatcha mean. I get that feeling we're dealing with something very big here.)

[Solon]

5. Everybody involved, from the damned Guards to the Fucking Nurse who...

stood by and did NOTHING but stand there should be thrown in jail for LIFE. What sadistic bastards these assholes are! Fucking murderers!

[Quantess]

6. I watched the video

It was horrifying. Those guards should absolutely be prosecuted. They have no business being around young people, ever.

[LiberalGuy000]

9. good ol' Florida strikes again (n/t)

[uppityperson]

10. MURDER,

I don't give a flying f* why this kid got sent to boot camp. They killed him there. This is NOT "mistakes were done". This is murder.

Edited to change, after reading article it says he was not in trouble at home, just struggling, like 14 yr olds do.

[High Plains]

11. What is it with Florida?

SWAT teams running amok, massive corruption in the thuggish Department of Corrections, home to half the child sex killers in the country. The whole damned state is a pathology.