‘Don’t Tase Me, Bro’
Those words were uttered by one Andrew Meyer, 21-year-old journalism student at the University of Florida just before being tasered and arrested by Florida University police at a Q+A with Sen. John Kerry. The video is making its way around the Internet and you can see it here.
Meyer was somewhere near the middle of a series of rambling questions that had something to do with voter disenfranchisement, impeachment and Skull+Bones. You know, the kind of rambling questions fired-up 21-year-old college students “ask.” The kid’s mic got cut and he became upset. That’s when the campus cops moved in to thwart any attempt at democracy taking place anywhere within the Sunshine State’s borders.
As Kerry can be heard saying, “That’s all right. Let me answer his question,” the cops swing into action, taking Meyer away and apparently tasering him into submission. Mayere can be heard yelling,” Is anybody watching this?” and in the YouTube era someone obviously was.
It wasn’t quite, “The Whole World is Watching,” while the MC-5 played “Kick out the Jams” at the 1968 Democratic convention, but it was pretty repellent nonetheless. (Assuming, of course, that it was not a set-up.)
More: Gainesville Sun story.
UPDATE: It appears Andrew Meyer is not the confused, babbling student he wants us to think he is.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:36 am
I love free speech as much as the next guy, but that idiot deserved to get tased.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
this whiney little jerk purposefully abused the situation to further his own agenda and gain media play time. i’ve never been so satisfied when he was finally tasered and taken away. what an ass.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Kerry could of subdued the situation simply by answering the questions. They are valid questions a curious public has been wondering.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
If you watch the other videos it looks like the woman cop started pushing him from behind while he was asking the questions. It also looks like she is the one that tasered him. I think, other than being a little excited, he did nothing technically wrong. Also, Kerry did not sound upset by the situation at all and was wanting to answer the questions. It was just the cops having their day in the sun.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
“I love free speech as much as the next guy, but that idiot deserved to get tased.”
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
September 18th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
If it were legal to taser someone just for being a loudmouth ass in public, then everyone in America would be fair game for tasering.
September 18th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
He got tasered for shoving and resisting arrest, not for asking too many questions! They didnt taser him while he was standing at the podium. They tasered him after he shoved 2 officers, and wrestled against officers trying to subdue him. What if he had had a gun or a knife, we only now know that he didnt. If he is bold enough to push an officer, who knows what his next move would be.
September 18th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
He wasn’t doing anything wrong, and they didn’t even explain what he was being arrested for. He must have asked about four times and THEN they tasered him. If everyone was arrested for saying what they believe, then we’d all be in jail before tomorrow.
September 18th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Have a close look at one of the videos. You can see a guy standing behind the student giving the “kill” sign. The Student’s mic is cut and the cops jump him. During the “arrest” Kerry jokes about the student coming up and “Inaugurating” him. Disgusting