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Mr. Casual
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Anyone see that on CNN?
Mr. Casual
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered.ap/index.html
am I right?
The one that stood up and during the Q&A with Kerry and tasered for no reason?
Indeed... horrible
you have to admit that the video is DEFINITELY
Yeah, i couldnt even get that clip to play. Here is another link..
http://video.nbc6.net/player/?id=157250
"uhhh.. anybody please follow us along and make sure they don't kill me"
so they ARE just campus police...not real po-po's?
I don't think he should have got his ass zapped tho.
http://www.theandrewmeyer.com/
At first I thought he was a douch bag.. but that does not give the Campus safety the right to use that type of force.. unbelievable.. FUCK THEM
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered by campus police and arrested after loudly and repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.
Andrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail before his release from jail Tuesday morning on his own recognizance. He had no comment when he left. His attorney, Robert Griscti, did not return messages seeking comment.
Videos of the Monday night incident, posted on several Web sites and played repeatedly on television news, show officers pulling Meyer away from the microphone after he asks Kerry about impeaching President Bush and whether he and Bush were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University.
University spokesman Steve Orlando said Meyer was asked to leave the microphone after his allotted time was up. Meyer can be seen refusing to walk away and getting upset that the microphone was cut off.
As two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., can be heard saying, "That's all right, let me answer his question."
Audience members applaud, and Meyer struggles for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room. Meyer screams for help and tries to break away from officers with his arms flailing at them, then is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting.
As Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student's "very important question," Meyer yells at the officers to release him, crying out, "Don't Tase me, bro," just before he is shocked by the Taser. He is then led from the room, screaming, "What did I do?"
Meyer was arrested on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records, but the State Attorney's Office had yet to make the formal charging decision. Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.
University President J. Bernard Machen issued a statement Tuesday saying he requested the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the arrest. Officials said it would determine whether the officers used an appropriate level of force.
Machen said two officers involved in the incident were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the probe.
Meyer has his own Web site and it contains several "comedy" videos that he appears in. In one, he stands in a street with a sign that says "Harry Dies" after the latest Harry Potter book was released.[/b] In another, he acts like a drunk while trying to pick up a woman in a bar.
The site also has what is called a "disorganized diatribe" attributed to Meyer that criticizes the Iraq war, the news media for not covering the conflict enough and the American public for paying too much attention to celebrity news.
Oh shit.. That was him?
Can some please update this?
Hilarious.
..on the other hand I would have no hesitation tazing someone who called me "bro" and wasn't a Maori