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NEWS
FRIDAY, APRIL 21. 2006
GOVERNMENT
Students continue sit-in to protest beaten teen
BY ANDREA FANTA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A sit-in at Gov. Jeb Bush's office stretched into a second day Thursday, as about 30 college students protested the state's response to the boot camp beating of a teenager who later died.
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The students, who met with Bush on Wednesday, are demanding the arrest of guards who were videotaped beating and kicking 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson.
Ben Crump, standing right, the attorney for Gina Jones, center, and Robert Anderson, standing left, addresses students demonstrating in the office of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush after a meeting with Bush, Thursday, in Tallahassee, Fla. Jones and Anderson are the parents of 14-year-old Martin Lee Anderson, who died after he was kicked and struck by guards at a Panama City juvenile boot camp in January. A sit-in at Bush's office stretched into a second day Thursday as about 30 college students protested the state's response to the incident. The students, who met with Bush on Wednesday, are demanding the arrest of guards who were videotaped beating and kicking the boy.
"I'm pretty tired, but I know we got a long day ahead of us, and when you're working on issues like this ... physically the things that are going on almost stop mattering," said Gabriel Pedras, a Florida State University student who helped organize the protest.
"They certainly have every right to do it. I appreciate their interest in the process. I think it's very healthy," Bush said Thursday. "I'll continue to do what I think is right."
Bush's office said that the governor planned to meet with Anderson's parents Thursday, and that the student protests won't change the way the case is being investigated.
The students, from Florida State University, Florida A&M University and Tallahassee Community College, said they were planning a protest Friday at the three schools and the Capitol.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson will participate, Sharpton's office said.
Hillsborough County State Attorney Mark Ober, appointed by Bush as special prosecutor to investigate the case, said he respected the students' right to protest, but urged people to remain patient.
As I told the (Anderson) family, when it's all said and done, I will look them in the eye and tell them I ethically and honestly did the very best job." Ober said. "I intend to get to the bottom of this — it's going to take a while."
Bush sent a letter Thursday asking Ober to investigate deleted e-mails belonging to the initial state investigator, who recused himself from the case because of personal ties. State Attorney Steve Meadows has said the e-mails were deleted unintentionally.
The students called on Bush to publicly apologize to the boy's parents and want the governor to release the findings of a second autopsy performed on Anderson and to revoke the license of a medical examiner who performed the first autopsy.
In the first autopsy, Dr. Charles Siebert ruled the boy died of complications from sickle cell trait, a usually benign blood disorder. Ober witnessed a second autopsy, and his office said Anderson didn't die of sickle cell, but details haven't been
released. Bush has said it would be premature to release the findings before the entire investigation is complete.
The governor said Thursday that he told the students he does
"I appreciate their frustration because I'm frustrated as well," Bush said. "I told them the facts, told them the truth."
not have the constitutional power to carry out their demands.
Bay County has closed its boot camp, and the House Justice Appropriations committee wants to replace camps statewide with residential programs. The U.S. Justice Department is
also investigating possible civil rights violations in the case. A lawyer for the Anderson family has said that he did not help organize the protest, but that the family is "appreciative."
Thousands protest king, security responds with fatal shooting
WORLD
Gautam Singh/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Police push back opposition party supporters trying to break the police barricade as they demonstrate against King Gyanendra in Katmandu, Nepal, Thursday. Nepalese police opened fire Thursday on tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who defied a curfew to march toward the capital, killing at least three and wounding dozens more, witnesses and hospital officials said.
BY MATTHEW ROSENBERG
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Despite a curfew imposed to head off protests, an alliance of seven opposition parties that has organized 15 days of protests and a general strike managed to draw as many as 100,000 people into the streets, according to estimates by police, organizers and witnesses.
Gyanendra came under more diplomatic pressure on Thursday to cede the power he seized 14 months ago from an interim government.
the city center — where a heavy police presence kept most protesters at bay — whistled and banged plates on their rooftops. Cell phone text messages encouraged Katmandu's 1.5 million residents to rally at the city's edge.
trolling in armored vehicles, and at least one police post had been attacked, its windows smashed by bricks.
Many of those protests turned violent as demonstrators parried with officers throughout the day, often tossing back tear gas canisters to cheers from supporters watching from rooftops.
While there have been bloodier days since the protests began, much of Nepal's life — political and economic — is centered in Katmandu, and Thursday's demonstrations dwarf all earlier ones in the capital.
The worst violence came on the city's western edge, where police trying to keep more than 10,000 protesters from reaching the ring road opened fire with tear gas, rubber bullets and finally live ammunition.
KATMANDU, Nepal — Tens of thousands of Nepalis defied a curfew to protest Thursday in the largest show of discontent with King Gyanendra since demonstrations against his royal dictatorship began more than two weeks ago. Security forces responded by fatally shooting three protesters.
police and soldiers.
Witnesses said the shooting in Kalanki began when a senior police officer drew his pistol and shot a protester in the head, an act followed by gunfire from
Early in the day, residents in
The senior offices "aimed straight for the (protesters)," said Ankul Shrestha, a 28-year throwing bottles at police in Kalanki. Other witnesses confirmed his account and protesters showed reporters fresh bullet casings.
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Hundreds more were reportedly injured around the city, including 13 police officers whose clearly exhausted colleagues were, by the end of the day, being forced against demonstrators by senior officers swatting them with rattan poles.
The nearly two dozen demonstrations, which brought as many as 100,000 people into the streets around the capital Katmandu, ranged from festive pro-democracy rallies to angry riots of young men who lit bonfires and hurled bricks at police. Some demanded the death of the king, whose government appears increasingly unable to control the country.
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