Indictments have been handed down in the Martin Anderson case. All 7 guards involved in the boot camp beating, plus the nurse who stood by. Here's the St. Pete Times version.
Update: Here's Mark Ober's 9-page report to the governor. 326 days and all we get is 9 pages washing some of the leading characters in this tragedy "whiter than snow." Still unanswered: why did the original state attorney in the Anderson case delete work emails while the investigation was under way? Did the former commissioner of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Guy Tunnell, who founded the boot camp where Martin died (he's the former sherriff of Bay County) and who is friends with Sheriff McKeithen, the current sherriff of Bay County, act to try and suppress the videotape of the beating, and did he have any hand in moving the autopsy to Bay County, when Martin died in nearby Hillsborough County? Did the sheriff's office err when they asked for the body to be moved? And why did it take so long for Ober to come up with the obvious conclusion that all seven guards and the nurse were culpable?
Anyway... we interviewed Katiadu Diallo, the mother of Amadou Diallo, this morning on the radio show. Her story -- 4 cops, 41 shots and no convictions in the killing of her son, unarmed, in 1999, reminds us that charges don't necessarily mean convictions, particularly when the defendants are cops and the victims are Black. Martin's parents have been getting so many racist death threats, they're moving out of town. And we're still waiting to see if they manage to find any African-Americans for that Bay County jury. Don't count on it. I hate to be cynical, but there we are.
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