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UF student Tasered at Kerry forum
independent Florida Alligator ^ | 9/17/2007 | By ILEANA MORALES, Alligator Writer

Posted on 09/17/2007 4:24:43 PM PDT by jjw

A UF student was shot with a Taser gun today at a campus forum with U.S. Sen. John Kerry.

Andrew Meyer, a telecommunication senior, yelled out to Kerry, a Democrat from Massachusetts, and insisted his questions be answered while police tried to restrain him.

Meyer shouted that the senator should answer everyone’s questions. Kerry was brought to UF by Accent, Student Government’s speakers bureau.

Kerry said it would "be fair" to answer Meyer’s question, and police allowed Meyer to approach one of the microphones set up in the University Auditorium.

Kerry finished answering a previous question, which was intended to be the last question for the forum at about 1:30 p.m.

During Meyer’s question, his microphone was cut off, and police tried to move him away from the microphone. Steven Blank, Accent’s chairman, said Meyer was cut off because he used profanity and his question was too long.

When police moved him away, Meyer resisted and began to yell out to the audience, asking "What did I do? What am I being arrested for?"

Two officers tried to handcuff and restrain Meyer while another pointed a Taser at him.

As they moved Meyer closer to the auditorium exit, Meyer screamed for help.

Once Meyer was removed, Kerry continued to answer Meyer’s question about why he did not contest the 2004 election.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: kerry; taser; zap; zot
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To: indylindy

Agreed


61 posted on 09/17/2007 5:25:15 PM PDT by ScreamingFist (Annihilation - The result of underestimating your enemies. NRA)
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To: Radix
I would have tasered Kerry as well, just on general principle.

LOL. I can see it now. You, another Freeper and a taser.

You: (Tasering Kerry) "Wow, just look at that sucker, flipping around on the floor like a fish out of water!"

Other Freeper: (leaning over Kerry, listening) "Wait, he's trying to say something!"

You: "What's he saying?"

Other Freeper: (listening closely for a moment) "He's said, 'I'll have another please'".

You: (taking careful aim) "Whoa, all right! Stand back everyone. INCOMING, Senator Kerry!"

62 posted on 09/17/2007 5:31:17 PM PDT by Col Freeper
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To: All

One of the vassals tries to speak.

“We will have none of that. Arrest that subject and take him away. His questions annoy me.”

Lord Kerry was heard saying as they pulled the subject from his presence.


63 posted on 09/17/2007 5:32:48 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: jjw
The auditorium wasn’t even half full, just the front seating section. Kerry sure can draw a crowd. It’s also obvious that the disrupter didn’t care if it was Kerry who won in 2004, he just wanted Bush to lose. He must have a chronic case of BDS.

IMO, the cops acted to quickly to shut him down. They should have let Kerry attempt to control the situation first. With Kerry’s leadership skills I’m sure he would have failed miserably, the punk would have gone further off the deep end, and then they could have tasered him without it looking so much like brutality.

64 posted on 09/17/2007 5:40:30 PM PDT by HundredDollars
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To: mass55th
She looks like the paper doilies you buy to decorate appetizer trays at parties

I think they are trying to show her softer more feminine, not a cold fish side. I don't think it is working for her. She sure looks like a doily.

65 posted on 09/17/2007 5:45:05 PM PDT by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: jjw

Were you aware he served in Viet Nam?


66 posted on 09/17/2007 5:56:31 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: mass55th

I look at that picture and think of “Toilet Seat Doilies”.
A perfect frame.


67 posted on 09/17/2007 6:14:46 PM PDT by pgobrien (82d Abn Inf pings......)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
I think we ought to put the student in for that award Kerry got the with the “V” for valor that does not even exist!

That was the silver star.

68 posted on 09/17/2007 6:35:34 PM PDT by D Rider
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To: Reagan79
I’m not sure why he felt the officers were going to kill him though, that’s a little much, although tasering him was totally inappropriate.

It's simple, really. He was being dragged to Bush's gulags, his noble voice extinguished for all time. Months of panty torture and dog collars, then - death. Oh, the humanity! "Tell the world my story."
69 posted on 09/17/2007 7:13:15 PM PDT by Freedom_Fighter_2001
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To: indylindy
Thats just corny! Wonfer who that flit is next to him?

Either Mrs. Ketchup or Ozzy Osbourne.

Hard to tell 'em apart.

70 posted on 09/17/2007 8:55:23 PM PDT by Unruly Human
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To: jjw

Freedom of Speech.


71 posted on 09/17/2007 8:58:49 PM PDT by bannie
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To: Radix
I watched more than half of the stupid video, and if I were a cop there I would have tasered him the 1st minute.

I am pretty much with you. You don't struggle with cops. An individual audience member is also not allowed to hijack a public forum for a speech and a whole string of questions, refusing to yield the mike.

OTH, it is quite unfair in that the Left behaves like this all the time. And not just at a rowdy college meeting but at congressional hearings. At least, they disrupt like this. I guess mostly they are smart enough not to fight with the cops when they get thrown out, which always appears to happen gently. (I'd ~love~ to see Cindy and Medea get zapped...and I won't say where.)

72 posted on 09/17/2007 9:17:28 PM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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To: jjw

Life under lib rule, coming to a country near you.


73 posted on 09/18/2007 5:04:14 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: jjw

I noticed in the video that you could hear laughter in the audience when he was tasered.


74 posted on 09/18/2007 5:06:04 AM PDT by a real Sheila (stop hillary NOW!)
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To: Radix
After watching the full video this guy deserved it. He was obviously a crazy Moonbat. The Democrats created these pigs, and now they have to live with it. LOL

Watching this and the C-Span coverage of the D.C. anti-war protest shows just how much of a problem the Democrats have on their hands. They may have a major problem controlling these Moonbats at their convention.

75 posted on 09/18/2007 5:24:36 AM PDT by NavyCanDo
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To: Reagan79
I think once he starting using the crude language the officers stepped in. It just escalated from that point. While he was down he seemed to be asking the audience to step in and save him.

Want to bet he is a KOS kid?

76 posted on 09/18/2007 5:32:05 AM PDT by mware (By all that you hold dear..on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: Jaysun

If I had to sit through a J Francois Kerry diatribe, I would need to be tasered just to get my heart to start beating again. What a bore!

Gotta love leftist tasering other leftists because they don’t like the question.


77 posted on 09/18/2007 6:13:03 AM PDT by Holicheese (1-21-09 Hillary starts to destroy America!)
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To: jjw
I thought that the whole incident was pretty cool. The student didn't get hurt........

but Kerry did.

The jack-booted thug image was strong...with the little girly-cop wagging her little finger in the mean 'ol "protesters" face and admonishing him to "calm down"....not even letting him set down to shake off the effects of getting tasered.

Way to go John F'n.....heh heh heh

78 posted on 09/18/2007 6:58:50 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (Give war a chance......)
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To: xjcsa; jjw; theDentist; avacado

I saw it on the Today Show and even Ann Curry wasn’t buying it. Looked like a sicko whackjob ‘performance piece’ to me!


79 posted on 09/18/2007 7:26:43 AM PDT by Froufrou
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To: jjw

This upsets me. Laura Ingraham was playing an audio of the incident and laughing about the student and what a baby he was being.

Frankly, I think this is reprehensible. I’ve heard stories of police using pretty rough force on pro-life demonstrators too.

Guess it’s easy to be a bully when you have guns and tasers.


80 posted on 09/18/2007 12:01:20 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
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