Hurricane Katrina ties it all together (Civil War)
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From Playtos Republic:Soldiers that are injurious to each other, are also not coheasive:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20060217/1948224482.htm
Fla. Officials Release Boot Camp Tape
By MELISSA NELSON
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Guards at a juvenile detention boot camp struck and restrained a teenager for a half-hour on the day before he died, a videotape released Friday shows.
The boy's parents said the security tape raises questions about an autopsy that found that 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson died from internal bleeding caused by a genetic blood disorder, and not from any injuries suffered in the Jan. 5 altercation.
``Martin didn't deserve this right here - at all,'' the boy's mother, Gina Jones, said after viewing the tape Friday at her lawyer's office in Tallahassee. ``I couldn't even watch the whole tape. Me as a mom, I knew my baby was in pain and I am in pain just watching his pain.''
Anderson, who entered the camp because of a probation violation, complained of breathing difficulties and collapsed while doing push-ups, sit-ups and other exercises. He died the next day at a Pensacola hospital.
Officials for the Bay County Sheriff's Office, which runs the Florida Panhandle camp, said guards restrained Anderson after he became uncooperative during the exercises.
On the grainy, 80-minute tape, which has no sound, as many as nine guards can be seen wrestling Anderson to the ground and restraining him. The boy appeared limp for most of the ordeal and never appeared to offer significant resistance. While he lay motionless on the ground, a guard struck him several times, either on his arm or torso.
At one point, a guard struck him from behind, lifting his feet off the ground. At the beginning, as the guards are pinning him against a pole, they struck him three times with their knees.
It's not clear from the tape how hard the blows were or where they landed. The physical confrontation lasted about 30 minutes.
A woman in a white coat was present while Anderson was restrained and at one point used a stethoscope to check him. Near the end of the confrontation, guards appear to become more concerned, and several run in and out of the scene. A few minutes later, emergency medical personnel take him away on a gurney.
State police investigating the case released the tape after a lawsuit by news organizations.
The autopsy by Charles Siebert, medical examiner for the district that includes Bay County, found bruises and scrapes on the boy's body but said they were linked to attempts to resuscitate him. It blamed his internal bleeding on sickle cell disorder, which is present in one in 12 African-Americans but doesn't show up in routine blood work.
There has been research - some involving recruits at military boot camps - linking the trait to sudden death after extreme exertion. Experts on sickle cell trait, however, questioned Friday whether the disease could be definitively and entirely to blame for Anderson's death.
``There is a slight, increased risk at the extremes of human endurance, but it really takes a profound amount of exercise and dehydration,'' said Dr. James Eckman, director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System in Atlanta and a professor at Emory University.
While research has shown an increased chance of sudden death with heavy exertion, it mostly occurs either in extreme heat and humidity or at high altitude. Weather records show the high temperature was 68 the day Anderson passed out.
A Harvard Medical School professor who reviewed Anderson's autopsy for The Miami Herald told the newspaper that the report was ``not plausible at all.''
The Justice Department is investigating possible civil rights violations in the case. Lawmakers and family lawyers on Friday called for the arrest of the guards who were seen on the videotape confronting Anderson and blasted the autopsy findings.
``It doesn't make sense and goes against all the logic of watching what happened to this young man,'' Republican state Rep. Gus Barreiro said.
Democratic Sen. Gary Siplin said any guard who touched Anderson should be immediately arrested.
``At the very least it's aggravated battery, at the top of the ladder it's murder,'' Siplin said.
Anderson was arrested in June for stealing his grandmother's Jeep Cherokee and sent to the boot camp for violating his probation by trespassing at a school.
The boot-camp concept for juveniles began in Florida in 1993, and five camps now house about 600 boys ages 14 to 18.
Associated Press reporters Brent Kallestad, David Royse and Andrea Fanta in Tallahassee contributed to this report.
02/17/06 19:48
From Playtos Republic:Soldiers that are injurious to each other, are also not coheasive:
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20060217/1948224482.htm
Fla. Officials Release Boot Camp Tape
By MELISSA NELSON
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) - Guards at a juvenile detention boot camp struck and restrained a teenager for a half-hour on the day before he died, a videotape released Friday shows.
The boy's parents said the security tape raises questions about an autopsy that found that 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson died from internal bleeding caused by a genetic blood disorder, and not from any injuries suffered in the Jan. 5 altercation.
``Martin didn't deserve this right here - at all,'' the boy's mother, Gina Jones, said after viewing the tape Friday at her lawyer's office in Tallahassee. ``I couldn't even watch the whole tape. Me as a mom, I knew my baby was in pain and I am in pain just watching his pain.''
Anderson, who entered the camp because of a probation violation, complained of breathing difficulties and collapsed while doing push-ups, sit-ups and other exercises. He died the next day at a Pensacola hospital.
Officials for the Bay County Sheriff's Office, which runs the Florida Panhandle camp, said guards restrained Anderson after he became uncooperative during the exercises.
On the grainy, 80-minute tape, which has no sound, as many as nine guards can be seen wrestling Anderson to the ground and restraining him. The boy appeared limp for most of the ordeal and never appeared to offer significant resistance. While he lay motionless on the ground, a guard struck him several times, either on his arm or torso.
At one point, a guard struck him from behind, lifting his feet off the ground. At the beginning, as the guards are pinning him against a pole, they struck him three times with their knees.
It's not clear from the tape how hard the blows were or where they landed. The physical confrontation lasted about 30 minutes.
A woman in a white coat was present while Anderson was restrained and at one point used a stethoscope to check him. Near the end of the confrontation, guards appear to become more concerned, and several run in and out of the scene. A few minutes later, emergency medical personnel take him away on a gurney.
State police investigating the case released the tape after a lawsuit by news organizations.
The autopsy by Charles Siebert, medical examiner for the district that includes Bay County, found bruises and scrapes on the boy's body but said they were linked to attempts to resuscitate him. It blamed his internal bleeding on sickle cell disorder, which is present in one in 12 African-Americans but doesn't show up in routine blood work.
There has been research - some involving recruits at military boot camps - linking the trait to sudden death after extreme exertion. Experts on sickle cell trait, however, questioned Friday whether the disease could be definitively and entirely to blame for Anderson's death.
``There is a slight, increased risk at the extremes of human endurance, but it really takes a profound amount of exercise and dehydration,'' said Dr. James Eckman, director of the Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System in Atlanta and a professor at Emory University.
While research has shown an increased chance of sudden death with heavy exertion, it mostly occurs either in extreme heat and humidity or at high altitude. Weather records show the high temperature was 68 the day Anderson passed out.
A Harvard Medical School professor who reviewed Anderson's autopsy for The Miami Herald told the newspaper that the report was ``not plausible at all.''
The Justice Department is investigating possible civil rights violations in the case. Lawmakers and family lawyers on Friday called for the arrest of the guards who were seen on the videotape confronting Anderson and blasted the autopsy findings.
``It doesn't make sense and goes against all the logic of watching what happened to this young man,'' Republican state Rep. Gus Barreiro said.
Democratic Sen. Gary Siplin said any guard who touched Anderson should be immediately arrested.
``At the very least it's aggravated battery, at the top of the ladder it's murder,'' Siplin said.
Anderson was arrested in June for stealing his grandmother's Jeep Cherokee and sent to the boot camp for violating his probation by trespassing at a school.
The boot-camp concept for juveniles began in Florida in 1993, and five camps now house about 600 boys ages 14 to 18.
Associated Press reporters Brent Kallestad, David Royse and Andrea Fanta in Tallahassee contributed to this report.
02/17/06 19:48