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Associated Press
Update 1: Students Protest at Fla. Governor's Office
By ANDREA FANTA , 04.19.2006, 09:53 PM

Gov. Jeb Bush arrived at his office Wednesday and found it besieged by college students protesting the state's response to the beating of a teenage boy at a boot camp. The boy later died.

Bush met privately for about 10 to 15 minutes with about 30 students, who staged the daylong protest to demand the arrest of guards who were videotaped beating, kicking and dragging the 14-year-old.

They also want Bush to publicly apologize to the boy's parents and to revoke the license of a medical examiner who performed the first autopsy and order the findings of a second released.

After their meeting with Bush, the students called the conversation "political" and decided to spend the night outside his office door.

"We'll stay as long as it takes," said Gabriel Pedras, a Florida State University student who helped organize the protest. "We feel sure he can meet our demands and ensure that justice is served."

Bush returned from a state trip Wednesday. Arriving at the airport, he said that "no one can feel good about a death like this" but that he could not respond to the protesters' demands until the probe was finished.

"It's being done by a very professional state attorney who's methodically going through all the information," the governor said. "Until that's completed, it's really premature for anybody to take additional action."

Bush's office said he would meet with the teen's parents on Thursday.

About 30 students linked arms Wednesday evening and chanted "Justice delayed is justice denied" as they moved their protest from the office foyer to the area outside Bush's door.

Outside the building, about 45 others carried signs bearing the name of Martin Lee Anderson. He died Jan. 6, a day after the beating at a juvenile detention boot camp run by the sheriff of Bay County.

The medical examiner determined the boy died of complications from sickle cell trait.

A nationally known pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, observed a second autopsy and said Anderson likely was suffocated during the confrontation.

The U.S. Justice Department is also investigating possible civil rights violations.

A lawyer for the Anderson family, Benjamin Crump, said he had talked to the students but did not organize the protest.

"The students are doing what's right," he said. "The family is appreciative."

The students, from Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee Community College, said they were planning a protest Friday with events at the three schools that will end at the Capitol.



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