Student Tasered after questioning Kerry at forum

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida student was Tasered and arrested after trying to ask U.S. Senator John Kerry about the 2004 election and other subjects during a campus forum.

Videos of the incident posted on several Web sites show officers pulling Andrew Meyer, 21, away from the microphone after he asks Kerry about impeaching President Bush and whether he and Bush were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University.

"He apparently asked several questions - he went on for quite awhile - then he was asked to stop," university spokesman Steve Orlando said. "He had used his allotted time. His microphone was cut off, then he became upset."

As two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., is heard to say, "That's alright, let me answer his question." Audience members applaud, and Meyer struggles to escape for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room.

Meyer screams for help and asks "What did I do?" as he tries to break away from officers. He is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting. Meyer says he will walk out if the officers let him go.

As Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student's "very important question," Meyer struggles on the ground and yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don't Tase me, bro," just before he is Tasered. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?"

Meyer was charged with resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records. No bond had been set. Meyer was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday morning, a jail official said.

It was not known if Meyer had an attorney.

Orlando said university police would conduct an internal investigation.

"The police department does have a standard procedure for when they use force, including when they use a Taser," Orlando said. "That is what the internal investigation would address - whether the proper procedures were followed, whether the officers acted appropriately."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/091...udent18-on.html

[Heracles 417]

What a loser. The fool screamed like a girl..

[pedroh 21]

What a loser. The fool screamed like a girl..

oh yeah.. what would you do? go ahead, get me tasered?? lol, it's easy to say that when you're not being hold by 6 cops.. when they pull the taser what you gonna do, just stay there and receive the shock? LOL.. you're so brave

Edited September 18, 2007 by pedroh

[DeadPoolX 9]

What a loser. The fool screamed like a girl..

In his defense, how does one "scream like a rugged manly man" when they're being shocked by a taser?

[pedroh 21]

What a loser. The fool screamed like a girl..

In his defense, how does one "scream like a rugged manly man" when they're being shocked by a taser?

well, you'd be like 'yea go ahead taser me!! cmon i challenge you, im soo machoo'

[Heracles 417]

What a loser. The fool screamed like a girl..

oh yeah.. what would you do? go ahead, get me tasered?? lol, it's easy to say that when you're not being hold by 6 cops.. when they pull the taser what you gonna do, just stay there and receive the shock? LOL.. you're so brave

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered.. Second of all he was crying before he was tasered..

Edited September 18, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[pedroh 21]

What a loser. The fool screamed like a girl..

oh yeah.. what would you do? go ahead, get me tasered?? lol, it's easy to say that when you're not being hold by 6 cops.. when they pull the taser what you gonna do, just stay there and receive the shock? LOL.. you're so brave

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered..

well he was in his right to be po'ed for being censored.. the cops really exaggerated all that sh!t

[Heracles 417]

well he was in his right to be po'ed for being censored.. the cops really exaggerated all that sh!t

Look at the video DC. He was the one acting like a fool.

[maria_n_john 0]

Yeah.....but I understand it was at the end of questions and answers. The guy's mike was turned off and he got p****ed about it. Apparently he started using expletives. I'm sure we're hear more about it.

More importantly, however, the football team is 3 and 0.

Go gators!!!!

[bostonparis 0]

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered.. Second of all he was crying before he was tasered..

Acting like a loser? I thought he was asking questions.

[Heracles 417]

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered.. Second of all he was crying before he was tasered..

Acting like a loser? I thought he was asking questions.

Look at the stupid questions he asked. Then when they tried to escort him out he carried on like a loser. Is that what American college kids are like??

Edited September 18, 2007 by Boo-Yah!

[pedroh 21]

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered.. Second of all he was crying before he was tasered..

Acting like a loser? I thought he was asking questions.

Look at the stupid questions he asked. Then when they tried to escort him out her carried on like a loser. Is that what American college kids are like??

so, just because they sound stupid, doesn't mean he can't ask them.. you're noone to judge the quality of the questions, except the person he's asking them to.. you're quick to judge people..

[DeadPoolX 9]

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered.. Second of all he was crying before he was tasered..

Acting like a loser? I thought he was asking questions.

Look at the stupid questions he asked. Then when they tried to escort him out her carried on like a loser. Is that what American college kids are like??

Since when is asking stupid questions a crime? Granted, they might be annoying, but an offense worthy of being escorted away by security, hit by a taser and arrested? That seems a little much, don't you think?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

First of all I wouldn't be acting like a loser to get tasered.. Second of all he was crying before he was tasered..

Acting like a loser? I thought he was asking questions.

Look at the stupid questions he asked. Then when they tried to escort him out he carried on like a loser. Is that what American college kids are like??

Bada-bing... no wonder kids are screwed up these days. Yes. You are right on the money...he represents all American college students. Your ability to critically analyze situations to form broad generalizations is remarkable.

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

i think every liberal should be tasered at least once