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| Author: | iul [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:26 pm ] |
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_____________________________________________________ http://video.nbc6.net/player/?id=157250 _____________________________________________________ UF Student Tasered During John Kerry Speech WTVJ-TV Updated: 6:54 p.m. ET Sept 17, 2007 GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida student was dragged away by police and tasered during a town hall meeting with U.S. Sen. John Kerry. Related Content: Video Andrew Meyer, of Weston, approached an open microphone at the University Auditorium on campus and began asking Kerry several questions, including why he didn't contest the 2004 election results and why President George W. Bush hasn't been impeached. When officers tried to physically remove Meyer from the auditorium, he began yelling. Several officers pushed him to the ground, and threatened to use a taser on him. After a scuffle on the ground, Meyer was tasered and handcuffed. Meyer was charged with disrupting a public event and placed in the Alachua County Jail. |
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| Author: | iul [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:27 pm ] |
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another article http://www.starbanner.com/article/20...rce=photoclick VIDEO at BOTTOM of page Student Tasered at Kerry speech GAINESVILLE - U.S. Sen. John Kerry's speech at the University of Florida came to a dramatic close Monday, shortly after a vocal audience member was hauled off by police and shot with a Taser gun. The audience member was preliminarily identified by UF officials as Andrew Meyer, a UF student in the College of Journalism and Communications. Toward the conclusion of Kerry's UF forum, Meyer approached an open microphone at the University Auditorium and demanded Kerry answer his questions. The student claimed that University Police Department officers had already threatened to arrest him, and then proceeded to question Kerry about why he didn't contest the 2004 presidential election and why there had been no moves to impeach President Bush. A minute or so into what became a combative diatribe, Meyer's microphone was turned off and officers began trying to physically remove him from the auditorium. Meyer flailed his arms, yelling as police tried to restrain him. He was then pushed to the ground by six officers, at which point Meyer yelled, "What have I done? What I have I done? Get away from me. Get off of me! What did I do? ... Help me! Help." Police threatened to user a Taser on Meyer if he did not "comply," but he continued to resist being handcuffed. He was then Tased, which prompted him to scream and writhe in pain on the floor of the auditorium. After the incident, Capt. Jeff Holcomb of the UPD said Meyer had been charged with disrupting a public event and placed in the Alachua County Jail. Holcomb said there would be an investigation into whether the officers used force appropriately, adding that employing a Taser gun would only be justified in a case where there was a threat of physical harm to officers. As Meyer was escorted away, he was followed by several students, including Matthew Howland, 20. Howland, a UF senior who said he didn't know Meyer, said he was "appalled" by the way UPD officers handled the situation. Howland acknowledged that Meyer had acted inappropriately by "rushing" the microphone and forcing a question on Kerry. "It's a perfect example of when officers take something to a level that is not necessary," he said. "The officers escalated that situation." Throughout the incident, Kerry urged the audience to "cool down" and acknowledged that Meyer had raised an important question. As officers escorted Meyer from the auditorium into the lobby, Kerry went on to explain that he did not think there was sufficient evidence of voter suppression to justify contesting the 2004 election. "We just couldn't do it in good conscience because we didn't have that evidence," he said. |
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| Author: | Haniel [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:32 pm ] |
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Considering students were supposed to get one question each, and he continued to ask "inflammatory" questions and refused to give up the mic, then scuffled with the police instead of just realizing he went too far... I think he got what was coming to him. Watch the video, the guy really seems like a tool. Wouldn't shut up, wasn't even really asking questions- he just wanted a chance to spew off his thoughts. Notice that everyone claps and cheers when the cops come to drag him off? I don't think they're cheering for the kid, at least I wouldn't be. |
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| Author: | iul [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:41 pm ] |
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I believe the claps and the cheers wern't for the cops takin him off, but, for him being able to stick up there and ask the questions maybe some people were wondering but couldn't/wouldn't ask. I believe that he shoulda calmed down a bit but was to afraid of stories you might hear about the Skull and Xbones and how they "fix" there problems. He set up his question with a long(possibly to long) introduction, but when he asked about Yale, notice the guy in the back ground telling someone "cut him off". I have seen alot of police brutality and just down right cruelness on college campus' and just totally believe that no way should he have been man handled like that :-/ Pretty unfortunate imo |
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| Author: | Death2life [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:58 pm ] |
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once he started resisting security he was wrong ..end of story |
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| Author: | Kenworth [ Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:16 pm ] |
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D2L would have tasered first, then asked questions. |
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