“I want
somebody arrested before next week’s
end. We need answers and we need
arrests, preferably by the end of
today,” said state Sen. Frederica
Wilson, D-Miami, who sat with
Anderson’s family during the
exhumation.
'Fighting for justice'
“In 2006 we are still fighting for
justice and we have to desecrate the
grave of a young boy to accomplish
this,” Wilson said.
Anderson’s
parents, who have been outspoken
about the case, did not make public
comments at the cemetery Friday.
The
exhumation was ordered by
Hillsborough County State Attorney
Mark A. Ober, whom Gov. Jeb Bush
appointed to investigate the death.
Speaking to reporters Friday in
Orlando, Bush said investigators
need time to do their job.
“If there
is any action that will be taken, it
will be based on (the state
attorney’s) investigation and if I
need to take action based on that I
will,” Bush said.
No guards
have been arrested or fired, but the
camp has been closed.
Also
Friday, The Miami Herald reported
that documents kept by the boot camp
show Anderson complained for 40
minutes Jan. 5 that he couldn’t
breathe before an ambulance took him
to a hospital.
The teen
dropped to his knees during a
physical fitness test complaining he
“was tired and couldn’t breathe good
enough to run any more,” the report
said. Boot camp officials said
guards then hit him in the legs and
arms and applied “pressure points”
to his head — the latter a technique
banned by the state Department of
Juvenile Justice in 2004.
Ruth
Sasser, a spokeswoman for Bay County
Sheriff Frank McKeithen, who ran the
camp under contract with the state
Department of Juvenile Justice,
declined to comment on the report.
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