• The North Carolina NAACP wants the state assembly to grant blacks in Wilmington reparations for the 1898 race riot there. Good luck with that. [WJ]

• NCers can't catch a break. Lil Wayne was a no show at a concert there. [SS]

• Brits of all colors are pissed at the head of Great Britain's black police officers' association for encouraging racial profiling of black youth. [IND]

• Civil rights activists will march and rally in Tallahassee today to protest the boot camp death ruling. [ABC]

• Are they really just catching on to barbershops? [ML]

An all-white jury in Florida found seven former juvenile boot camp guards and a nurse not guilty in the death of a 14-year-old black inmate Friday. The trial took three weeks. It took the jury 90 minutes to decide to acquit.

A 30 minute video, which shows the guards beating the boy, who had collapsed after running laps, while a nurse looked on, wasn't enough for the jury. Medical examiners for each side told different stories — the defense said the boy died from a pre-existing medical condition and the prosecution said the boy did not die of natural causes. Not long after the verdict was announced Friday, federal prosecutors announced they would investigate the case further.

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