University Of Florida Student Tasered At John Kerry Speech

[irotas]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TIYTJ75U4NU


That is seriously one of the SCARIEST things I've seen in a long time. I'm absolutely horrified!

I can't believe Kerry was standing there in the background talking calmly while the police so brutally tasered this poor guy.

I think I'm going to be sick ...

 

[irotas]

Here's more footage of the aftermath:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NWukZhsiBw

 

[irotas]

Here's the guy's personal webpage:
http://www.theandrewmeyer.com/


And his Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=5779218759

 

[irotas]

And John Kerry's reply:
http://www.johnkerry.com/blog

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In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way.

I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but again I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention.

I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of answering him when he was taken into custody.

I was not aware that a taser was used until after I left the building. I hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured.

I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.
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[CanadianK9]

Well he must have done something to inspire getting tasered, and its non lethal so I say buttercup should suck it up

 

[happyhound]

Well he must have done something to inspire getting tasered, and its non lethal so I say buttercup should suck it up

So you agree with the excessive use of force in this situation? Why do you just accept that he did something wrong?

It was a Q&A session and it was time for the students to ask questions. Guess when the questioning gets too toughy woughy for Mr Kerry it's just time to start tazing. That'll answer his question.

 

[sparks19]

Well after watching the video.... I don't think his questions should have been cut off like that. he makes some very good points. I do not think there was any need for police interference.

when the questions get tough just have the police remove them?

however, once he did start "resisting" arrest (as unjust as the arrest may have been) I believe the police DO have the right to use force. A Taser is not deadly force.

I disagree with the scenario as a whole but I do agree that if someone is resisting arrest the police shall do whatever is nessecary to get the situation under control. i just don't think this warranted an arrest or anything of that nature.

 

[*Amy*]

Wow, that was really weird. Did the guy actually believe the police were going to kill him? He kept saying, "Ask where I am because they're going to try and kill me." I agree he shouldn't have been tasered, but it would've gone a lot better if he didn't resist so much.

 

[96 GTS]

Why the hell was he getting arrested in the first place. WTF? This should be all over the news! That is the scariest freaking thing I've ever seen.

 

[Maxy24]

I don't think he should have been arrested in the first place, but he did need to be controlled for resisting arrest. Whether a taser was the way to do that or not I'm not sure. I wish the video was a little clearer, I'd like to see what the kid was exactly doing when he got tasered.

 

[Aussie Red]

Way to go America. Land of the free and home of the brave!!! You still believe we are a free country ????

 

[irotas]

I don't think he should have been arrested in the first place, but he did need to be controlled for resisting arrest. Whether a taser was the way to do that or not I'm not sure. I wish the video was a little clearer, I'd like to see what the kid was exactly doing when he got tasered.

If you look around on Youtube, there are several other videos of the same event, shot from different angles.

 

[ToscasMom]

They should have just limit people to being a mile away from wherever the politician is speaking. That's the trend now isn't it?

Too bad it missed Kerry. Maybe these goofs need to know what these things feel like before they pass laws making it ok to use it on actual humans. If you ask me, he's another smarmy skull and bones goombah liar in a long list of them.

This country is turning into a freaking dictatorship. The only next step for our constitution is to put it in the bottom of a bird cage.

Maxy you do have a point, to a point. It's hard to tell what the kid was up to, but it used to be that people were just removed from a room. Now we have to zap them with tasers? Unless he had a weapon he was going to use, in which case they should have shot him, there is no reason to use these kinds of instruments on people just to make it convenient to remove them from a room for running their mouths.

 

[ToscasMom]

If you look around on Youtube, there are several other videos of the same event, shot from different angles.

Seeing one was sickening enough. They should have just removed the guy from the room. God knows there were enough of them to do it.

 

[Laurelin]

Well, he shouldn't have been arrested, I don't think. But he should have cooperated with the police. Resisting arrest is kind of asking for trouble.

Plus, I heard it wasn't actually a taser...??? anyone else hear that?

 

[sparks19]

They should have just limit people to being a mile away from wherever the politician is speaking. That's the trend now isn't it?

Too bad it missed Kerry. Maybe these goofs need to know what these things feel like before they pass laws making it ok to use it on actual humans. If you ask me, he's another smarmy skull and bones goombah liar in a long list of them.

This country is turning into a freaking dictatorship. The only next step for our constitution is to put it in the bottom of a bird cage.

Maxy you do have a point, to a point. It's hard to tell what the kid was up to, but it used to be that people were just removed from a room. Now we have to zap them with tasers? Unless he had a weapon he was going to use, in which case they should have shot him, there is no reason to use these kinds of instruments on people just to make it convenient to remove them from a room for running their mouths.

LMFAO I love that.

It looked to me like they were trying to remove him from the room and he was fighting them off and running back in.... at which point they start to place him under arrest which he also resisted.

I just don't think there was a need to remove him period.

 

[ToscasMom]

LMFAO I love that.

It looked to me like they were trying to remove him from the room and he was fighting them off and running back in.... at which point they start to place him under arrest which he also resisted.

I just don't think there was a need to remove him period.

You're probably right. But if they let him stay, Kerry would have had to answer the questions.

 

[sparks19]

You're probably right. But if they let him stay, Kerry would have had to answer the questions.

Which gives us two problems....

One: he would have had to stutter through and make up some lame answer because we all know he wouldn't have had a REAL answer

and Second: the students would have been subject to having to actually listen to him speak

 

[ToscasMom]

LOL John Kerry, The Tylenol PM Candidate.

 

[sparks19]

LOL John Kerry, The Tylenol PM Candidate.

LMFAO