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Student Tasered for Asking Kerry Tough Questions
2007-09-18
A University of Florida student was stunned with a Taser and taken to jail on Monday after police say he disrupted an event with U.S. Sen John Kerry and refused to leave. The incident was caught on video, which has since been distributed on the Internet.

Within hours of the arrest, articles about it and video of the entire incident were posted on Meyer's website, www.theandrewmeyer.com. The website includes writings by Meyer, including one piece against the war in Iraq.

At about 1 p.m., Kerry was nearing the end of a forum (and) audience members were allowed to ask questions at a microphone, university spokesman Steve Orlando said. The person in front of Meyer was told he would be the last person to speak, Orlando said. Meyer said he was upset with that, so Kerry gave him the OK.

When he took the mike, Meyer then asked Kerry several questions. On amateur video linked from Meyer's website, his questions included why Kerry conceded in the 2004 presidential election, why not impeach President George W. Bush now, and whether Kerry was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society at Yale University.

When reminded that he was only supposed to ask one question, Meyer responded in the video ``He's talked for two hours. I think I can have two minutes.''
And it went downhill, from there.

Members of the student group sponsoring the event summoned UF police to escort Meyer out, according to a police statement. At first, students can be heard cheering as he is asked to leave. But Meyer refused to leave, police said. When officers tried escorting him, he resisted, and officers only partially got handcuffs on him, according to police.

By then, officers had moved Meyer to the back of the auditorium, where he was on the floor, Orlando said. Officers told him to stop resisting, and when he still refused, they used the stun gun, Orlando said. On the video, he can be heard screaming at that point. Meyer was then put back on his feet and taken out of the auditorium, he said.

At one point in one of the videos, Meyer says, ''Why am I under arrest?'' and ``They're going to try and kill me.''
O.K., so he was a loony student.

Posted by:Bobby

#18  I want to submit this for a new TV show: America's Funniest Taser Videos. That doesn't make me a bad person does it?
Posted by: regular joe   2007-09-18 21:48  

#17  ^^^Tried to post link above. Didn't work. :-(
Posted by: DragonFly   2007-09-18 21:33  

#16  Haha!
Posted by: DragonFly   2007-09-18 21:20  

#15  I had nothing to do with this.
Posted by: DragonFly   2007-09-18 21:14  

#14  Good thing it was only kerry talking, if it were Hillary they would have shot him with BULLETS.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2007-09-18 20:46  

#13  Good one, Barb!
Posted by: Mike   2007-09-18 19:15  

#12  Perchance does Meyer write for the Daily Kos?
Posted by: DMFD   2007-09-18 18:47  

#11  Hee hee, the Doc's bed-side is failed for once.
Posted by: Thomas Woof   2007-09-18 18:41  

#10  #2: "On one side, you have a raging moonbat.

On the other side, John Kerry you have a raging moonbat."

There - fixed that for ya', Mike. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-09-18 18:37  

#9  Campus cops are usually the guys who failed the exam to work security at the local ballpark ...
Posted by: Steve White   2007-09-18 16:54  

#8  another exciting episode of:

TRUTHER CONSEQUENCES
Posted by: Clush Darling of the Welsh8001   2007-09-18 16:46  

#7  Some people were talking about it at work today. I said "If I am ever going to hear John Kerry speak, please Taser me."
Posted by: Tibor   2007-09-18 13:35  

#6  Says something about moonbats, campus cops and Kerry. Nothing in there was worth the 10 trees cut down to report it. It was blue on blue on blue if you ask me.
Posted by: Jack is Back!   2007-09-18 11:27  

#5  Campus cops. I remember having a water fight one night in college and the UMASS cops showed up...guns drawn.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-09-18 10:19  

#4  He was disrupting the meeting, was asked to leave, did not, then resisted armed peace officers. Watching the video it is clear this was after Senator Kerry attempted to calm the situation (I hate giving that man credit for anything).

Yes, the officers do not appear entirely competent but this was a big guy acting totally erratically. He got less than he deserved. I could care less what ideology he espoused except in so far as had he been conservative it would be an embarrassment and his being a moonbat means I enjoyed listening to him squeal.
Posted by: Excalibur   2007-09-18 10:14  

#3  Never question your exalted overlords, peasant. Now begone!
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-09-18 09:23  

#2  On one side, you have a raging moonbat.

On the other side, John Kerry.

Who to root for, who to root for . . . such a hard call!
Posted by: Mike   2007-09-18 08:53  

#1  Unless you read carefully you would think it was a Bush supporter who was zapped, and initially sympathize with the zappee. This just didn't fit the media template so I read more closely and I find the zappee was a sympathetic figure because he was to the LEFT of sKerry.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-09-18 08:06  

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