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Students continue to focus on Anderson
By Julian Pecquet
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
May 29, 2006
 

A group of college students from Tallahassee plan to continue their call for justice in the Martin Lee Anderson case during their break this summer.

The students from Tallahassee Community College and Florida State and Florida A&M universities have been galvanized by the death of Anderson, a black, 14-year-old boy who died in January a day after being restrained, hit and kneed at a Bay County boot camp.

"We're just working throughout the summer to make sure it stays at the forefront of the media," Florida A&M Student Body president Phillip Agnew said.

Last month, the students staged a sit-in and rally at the Capitol to protest what they called Gov. Jeb Bush's lack of action. No arrests have been made, but the case is still under investigation.

The students will continue their efforts Saturday when they join the Florida state conference of the NAACP for a march and rally in Panama City. On May 15, they flooded the Bay County Sheriff's Office with calls asking for the former supervisor of the boot camp to be fired. And in recent weeks, the students have raised money for trips to Panama City and elsewhere.

They've also formed the Student Coalition for Justice Inc., which is expected to have a Web site by the end of the week. Its presiding officers are Agnew, FSU student Cindy Motta and Danyell Shackleford, the former student body president at TCC.

Read more about this in tomorrow's Tallahassee Democrat.

Originally published May 29, 2006

 

 

 

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