I do hope these guys (and gal) are tried in a federal court. I saw the tape and this young man was murdered and the nurse allowed it to happen. I cannot understand how the jury voted aquital.

I see this world truly hasn't changed. It is sad when you try to teach you children right from wrong and they continue to see wrong being done against them. The JURIORS should be ashamed. I hope they can sleep better now that they have aquitted murders.

First off, to the family, DO NOT GIVE UP! Continue to strive forward and seek justice for your son! The nurse whom allowed and participated in this atrocity needs her [bleep] kicked. I hope appeals get a judge to overturn the acquittal. That crap was not/ is not "tough love". We ought to be ashamed that we tolerate this to happen to anyone let alone our children.

These 8 people are guilty of murder. The justice system fails us again. Disgusting!

I have never been so appalled as I was at the verdict of the boot camp guards and the nurse. I can't understand how she could call herself a nurse and watch what happened to that child. What is wrong with this picture. If I spank my child on the behind I could go to jail for child abuse but men and a women that should be teaching our children can murder them and nothing happens to them! What is that?

Wow! What a sad case and situation. My heart goes out to all of you who have been blindsided by the media and their coverage of this story. All of this could have been prevented by the mother properly filling out paperwork at the boot camp. She needs to be charged with aggravated child abuse! His condition would have been revealed and he would not have been admitted into the camp. Justice has been served! Anyone who further requests any action against the guards should be charged with Harassment! Any further investigation should have already been conducted.

It makes me sick to see the video of the BEATING. I hope Rep. Miller is successful of getting federal charges against those murderers. I hope the mother uses her anger to fight for reform of our juvenile justice system. Maybe his death could help prevent another mother's child from getting murdered in state custody!!!

What is wrong with this picture? "The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants federal investigators to conduct their own investigation"! Why isn't DHHS calling for an investigation? You can't go around killing 14 year old children by medically neglecting and physically abusing them until they are dead! The State of Florida is complicit in abusing and killing this child as he was in their custody! And a all white jury!! No blacks in Florida? This was a TORTURE camp for children! You don't put 14 year olds in torture camps. It's against Federal law! It is called the Child Protection Act!

It's understandable that the child was in the camp for disciplne. Which myself as a parent, I think kids get away with too much. But all honestly, what kind of trouble would a parent be in if someone taped a parent doing this to their own child? The first thing they say to parents, hitting your child all it teaches them, to solve a problem with violence. In this case the child can't even learn that because he is no longer here. Mean while everyone else continues life like nothing. Hugging and kissing their own children and family. And if the child did have a medical condition, thats the parent responsibilt to say so. She is stil here also, her son is not.He has paid the price as most kids do, pays the price for their parents oops.

I'm still shocked that the jury acquitted the guards and nurse. If a parent or teacher would have done to this child what these people did, they would be in prison at this very minute. I don't care what the jury says, I say they killed this child. Anyone with a once of common sense would know that putting ammonia under a person nose then cover the mouth and nose could cause a person to smother to death. And that is just what happen to this poor child. It just makes me sick to my heart. My prayers go out to the family of Martin Lee Anderson, God Bless You!

How can 8 people including a medical professional claim a dying teenager is uncooperative, and hold his mouth closed to force him to breath ammonia which is supposed to be inhaled in limited amounts to help revive someone? Even worse, how can a jury acquit the killers? Did none of these paid public servants have the intelligence to yell "Stop!", or were they just a mob? If these so called professionals and those who gave them "orders" and are responsible for their actions can't be convicted of child abuse, no one in the country can.

They didn't beat him - but they did misuse the ammonia. They weren't trained correctly and the nurse should have warned them. But no one cares about the facts - certainly not the news media who misrepresented the case from the beginning. Let's pander to race politics some more.

"The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil."~~Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor. The guards were indifferent when they brutally beat this young boy child to death. The nurse on duty was indifferent when she stood by and did not stop them. The medical examiner was indifferent when he lied in his report about how this young boy child actually died. Then the jury became indifferent when they took only ninety minutes to rule in favor of these murderers. That alone makes them all the epitome of evil! Hitler would be so very very proud of them! If God doesn't punish this nation for it's continued indifference to others and the evil that has presisted throughout the decades, He will have to raise all the evil rulers He has brought down and destroyed since the time man walked this planet and committed evil against his fellow man then apologize to them.

"I want no mercy, only justice -- justice-- justice "

its the south cops do what they want always beed that way

How do jurors live with themselves after letting guilty people go free?

You neglected to disclose there were two black defendants on trial.

The mother knew her son had the sickle cell trait. If the boot camp knew the child had sickle cell trait, then he would not have been admitted.

The mother caused the death of her son.

This is what America is comming to a POLICE COUNTRY,what would all these guys and 1 women think if they got beat like this.im telling yuo guys and ladies we all need to email and write or call our Congressmen and tell them its time for a change!Anyone in any kind of Law Inforcement needs to start being held liable for there action, the same way we would be.Start sending them to jail or prisen will help change there minds.

Federal Investigation of Florida Boot Camp Death: They need to investigate the State of Florida for mis-stating facts in their reports for political gain. The state paid out $5 million of taxpayer dollars before the criminal trial. The state reports were bogus. The prosecutors has no chance of winning when the facts were exposed.

This is a huge injustice for this childs family and step back in time for this country. "The 8" need to go to jail. CLEARLY THIS WAS CHILD ABUSE!!