Haven't seen this written about yet, so if it has, don't recommend.
The AP has just reported that the eight boot camp workers charged with manslaughter in Florida in the death of a 14 year old, who was repeatedly kicked and punched and died a day later, have been acquitted after only a 90 minute deliberation by the jury.
AP
Seven former boot camp guards and a nurse were acquitted Friday of manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy who was hit and kicked by the drill instructors in a videotaped altercation.
The video of a limp Martin Lee Anderson being hit and kicked by the guards after he collapsed while exercising drew protests in the state capital and spelled the end of Florida's system of boot camps for juvenile offenders. Anderson died at a hospital the day after the altercation...
[T]he boy's mother, Gina Jones, stormed out of the courtroom after the verdict was read. "I cannot see my son no more. Everybody see their family members. It's wrong," she said, distraught.
Her lawyer, Benjamin Crump, told reporters outside: "You kill a dog, you go to jail. You kill a little black boy and nothing happens."
I'm so disgusted I can't write anymore than just reporting it.0
UpdateCBS has clips of part of the beating and the parents reaction if you can stomach it.