UF Police Cleared In Taser Incident
Charges May Be Filed Against Student
POSTED: 12:19 pm EDT October 24, 2007
UPDATED: 12:48 pm EDT October 24, 2007
Posted on 10/24/2007 10:38:54 AM PDT by Stoat
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A report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the officers were justified when they used the Taser gun on Andrew Meyer. Police have said Meyer refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus event last month. The videotaped altercation and Meyer's cries of "Don't Tase me, bro!" were played frequently on the Internet.
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Police charged Meyer for resisting an officer and disturbing the peace. The State Attorney's Office has not yet decided whether to file formal charges. University President Bernie Machen said his student-faculty committee to determine how existing event-management rules can be improved will continue to meet.
He wasn't your bro, so they let him go.
He wasn't your bro, so they let him go.
Hopefully the Officers will now feel free to tase all Kerry supporters :-)
I remember something about some woman disturbing the peace last year or the year before. Something about her T shirt.
The police had to apologize to her then. Guess it all DEPENDS on who you offend.
Clearly it was not the fault of the police. It was Kerry’s fault. But for Kerry, it never would have happened.
and the jackboots played on...
As well as the specific circumstances of the offense. A loud, obnoxious twit who disobeys Police commands and resists is in an entirely different universe than a t-shirt.
Agreed. His obtuse, inarticulate and slow-witted demeanor caused this escalation (as well as the perp's desire for fifteen minutes of fame)
Really? Considering that this twit was going out of his way to intentionally create a disruptive public disturbance at an event featuring a speaker who is a Government official (albeit a corrupt one) under Secret Service protection, and he repeatedly refused lawful police commands and refused to exit the facility quietly, I think that the police used astonishing restraint in this matter....far more than I would have.
Try pulling the same stunt in nearly any other country and you'll see REAL "jackboots".
In a just world Medea Benjamin would be the most-tased human on Earth.
What if it was an African American woman officer doing the tasing and he yelled “Don’t tase me, Ho!”?
What delightful imagery your post evokes :-)
Why look in foreign countries, we have plenty of our own. Not to mention the quack female that got caught pepper spraying a duck in Florida. They seem to have a bunch of them down there, that's where the cop arrested the girl and put her in jail when she was going to the hospital for a rape test. Jackbooted anyone?
They should tase that college newspaper punk who ran the “Tase this: F**k Bush!” headline. I never understood how that stupid leftie punk managed to blame President Bush for some jerk getting tased at a Kerrey speech. He should have been fired just for being so stupid.
Because they provide a useful perspective for those who perhaps haven't traveled and who apparently forget about the endless microscopic exams that police officers here in the USA face after every action of theirs involving any use of force. Few nations hold their police to the rigidly high standards of professionalism that we do, and few nations are so quick to fire or prosecute officers who step over the line. I'm not familiar with the specific incidents that you mention, but you can rest assured that if any wrongdoing on the part of the police was involved, they will be held to account, just as they were in this Florida taser matter.
Very nice. Thank you.
BTW: This yam is a man.
Here’s how:
Seems Naomi Wolfe’s book “End of America” and her interview on CSpan is spreading.
Naomi Wolf
A Shocking Moment for Society: Tasering at University of Florida
Posted September 18, 2007 | 05:20 PM (EST)
Today’s news shows a recognizable shock moment in the annals of a closing society. A very ordinary-looking American student — Andrew Meyer, 21, at the University of Florida - was tasered by police when he asked a question of Senator John Kerry about the impeachment of President George Bush. His arms were pinned and as he tried to keep speaking he was shocked — in spite of begging not to be hurt. A stunning piece of footage but unfortunately, historically, a very familiar and even tactical moment.
It is an iconic turning point and it will be remembered as the moment at which America either fought back or yielded. This violence against a student is different from violence against protesters in the anti-war movement of 30 years ago because of the power the president has now to imprison innocent U.S. citizens for months in isolation. And because, as I have explained elsewhere, we are not now in a situation in which ‘the pendulum’ can easily swing back. That taser was directed at the body of a young man, but it is we ourselves, and our Constitution, who received the full force of the shock.
There is a chapter in my new book, The End of America, entitled “Recast Criticism as ‘Espionage’ and Dissent as ‘Treason,’” that conveys why this moment is the horrific harbinger it is. I argue that strategists using historical models to close down an open society start by using force on ‘undesirables,’ ‘aliens,’ ‘enemies of the state,’ and those considered by mainstream civil society to be untouchable; in other times they were, of course, Jews, Gypsies, Communists, homosexuals. Then, once society has been acculturated to that use of force, the ‘blurring of the line’ begins and the parameters of criminalized speech are extended — the definition of ‘terrorist’ expanded — and the use of force begins to be deployed in HIGHLY VISIBLE, STRATEGIC and VISUALLY SHOCKING WAYS against people that others see and identify with as ordinary citizens. The first ‘torture cellars’ used by the SA, in Germany between 1931 and 1933 — even before the National Socialists gained control of the state, during the years when Germany was still a parliamentary democracy — were informal and widely publicized in the mainstream media. Few German citizens objected because those abused there were seen as ‘other’ — even though the abuse was technically illegal. But then, after this escalation of the use of force was accepted by the population, students, journalists, opposition leaders, and clergy were similarly abused during their own arrests. Within six months dissent was stilled in Germany.”
Pure projection!!!
read:
http://americandaily.com/article/20657
Agreed, and they should tase him again for being so breathtakingly inarticulate.
I never understood how that stupid leftie punk managed to blame President Bush for some jerk getting tased at a Kerrey speech.
For a Leftist to 'not' blame President Bush, it would necessitate the use of original thinking, outside of the Socialist Box. Few committed Leftists have managed such advanced cognition; David Horowitz being one famous example of someone who has.
He should have been fired just for being so stupid
Unfortunately, 'being stupid' is normally a requirement for working at 'most' college newspapers, and is a preferred resume enhancement for Democrat politicians.
Ugh. I tried to read that gunk, but as soon as I saw the name naomi wolfe, I knew it was going to be the usual USA=Nazi Germany puke. It’s amazing how leftie “intellectuals” manage to keep telling themselves that calling people “Nazis” is original thought.
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