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About 700 people from all over Florida marched on Tallahassee to protest the Martin Lee Anderson verdict.� Earlier this month, an all-white Panama City jury acquitted 7 guards and a nurse in the 14-year-old�s death at the now-closed Bay County Boot Camp.� As Chris Casquejo explains, many protestors did not know the teen, but felt a duty to come.

Here it here: Marchers From All Over Florida Protest Anderson Verdict

With purpose in their voices, as many as 700 people marched through the streets of Tallahassee.� Their goal, justice for Martin Lee Anderson.� Gloria Sylvester came with her church from Tampa.

�I do believe in God and I do believe this will be set right,� Sylvester said.

The Florida NAACP organized the march and rally.� Daryl Speaks from Martin County is the state�s youngest chapter president at age 36.� He believes the not guilty verdict was rooted in slow-changing attitudes.

�I call it a sickness when you have hatred for someone,� Speaks said.

Of the hundreds of people that came to march and rally here in Tallahassee, very few of them actually know Martin Lee Anderson, but they say they feel a personal connection.� Daryl Speaks believes one of his three children could have been Anderson.

�I have 3 children myself, so I can understand how it can hit home, he said. “An adult, maybe you can understand.� But a youth?� There is no justice.�

But marchers like Daryl see hope for the future, despite what they see as injustice in the Anderson case.

�The young kids are playing.� The reality is, it�s always going be there.� But it gets a little less each and every time,� he said.

And while time can heal some wounds, many here vow to never forget Martin Lee Anderson and his family.

The state paid Martin Anderson�s parents $5 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit before the criminal trial.