Beaten to Death
Martin Anderson, a 14 y/o Florida boy died his first day in a "correctional boot camp." Jebba Bush's coroner initially ruled the death was due to internal bleeding because of sickle cell trait – not the 30 minute beating he received. "Trait" mind you, not sickle cell disease. And the bruises and abrasions were from attempts to resuscitate.
Note AP story says Anderson was "kneed and struck." Kneed and struck, not punched and kicked as in the video. The video also showed Nurse Ratched Mengele with stethoscope checking the boy's vital signs, giving guards the okay to continue with the "kneed and struck" routine. At one point up to 9 guards were surrounding the limp body on the ground.
A second independent autopsy at the parents request ruled death was due to the beating. Note AP in this story admits the "tape showing guards kicking and punching Martin Lee Anderson’s limp body the day before he died."
Martin was in the camp for violating parole when he stole his grandmother's car from the church parking lot. He was on parole for trespassing at a school. The type of crime considered "youthful indiscretions" by upper class folks, which daddy can make disappear. Media described Martin as a "big kid." Yes, all 6 feet 140 pound stringbean of a kid.
The media won't make an issue of this; wouldn't want to disturb progressive consciences too much about injustice at home; they have all those far-off international "detainees" to be alarmed and anxious about.
1 comment:
Great followup to your last blog and a perfect example of what is transpiring throughout the “youth correction” systems now firmly in place. “Alternative” public schools have built a presence throughout the education system and are nothing but training grounds for the prison system. “School Cop” is a bona-fide career; they have their own special vehicles and great working hours.
I know of a case where a 16-yr-old “ran away”. The family receives some public assistance so the youngster’s 2-nights’ stay in a neighbor’s backyard became a federal case so-to-speak. The child was remanded to alternative school. Several weeks later, the kid got caught holding a cigarette at the public bus stop after school - by a regular cop (They make the alternative kids take public transportation, which I guess, differentiates them from the short bus crew and feeds money where needed.). The kid is now “on probation” for violating the under-age smoker rule. The kid doesn’t smoke; was actually holding the butt for an older classmate adjusting a bookbag, and just looking cool to drivers-by. Several kids testified to this, but “rules are rules”. Except if your privileged, as you said, then you can admit to drinking, drugging, stealing, lying, and committing adultery, right up to your forties under the “youthful indiscretion” label - and still have a clean record.
The quiet, deliberate bullying of our young people into their niches for use by the homeland proceeds on schedule.
I ache for that young man (and his family) whose last excruciating hours of life are painted to protect the guilty and feed a system whose appetite will never be satiated.
Kathy F.
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