Friday, an all white jury found seven drill instuctors and a nurse not guilty in the death of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, whose death at a boot camp for young offenders was captured on videotape. That’s right on videotape! The tape shows the boy who was black, being punched, kicked, kneed, and forced to inhale ammonia while his mouth is held shut. The first autopsy that was done showed that he died of natural causes, but a second one showed that he suffocated from breathing in the ammonia with his mouth held shut for several minutes. It was said that some of the jurors knew the family’s of some of the guards that were on trial. All the talk about crime and punishment in class really made me think about this article. In class we learned that it’s usually people who have a low socioeconomic status that get sentenced and not people of higher status. Add that to the fact that the jurors knew the people who were on trial and you can throw away any chance of them being convicted. The way the system works is completely not right. I didn’t even think you were allowed to be on a jury if you knew the people on trial but I guess I was wrong. I guess that old saying if you do the crime you do the time is exactly that OLD!
Just like my last blog I got this article from USA Today. Here's the link http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-10-12-bootcamp-death_N.htm
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