<p>Claims that the police are "going to give him to the government and kill him."</p>
<p>I get it kids, you're trying to be revolutionary and what-not, but when you resist arrest (whether you think you should be arrested or not) you're going to get tasered. Another priceless comment goes out to the girl with the shrill voice around 3:20 "Don't do that, why are you doing that." Well, there doing that cuz he's resisting arrest, and they even gave him warning he would be tasered if he kept it up. </p>
<p>Sometimes people just need to shut their mouths and go along with things until they can cool down....</p>
<p>Not really. They couldn't get cuffs on him, he kept moving and making it impossible to escort him out. He was warned, numerous times, that if he continued this he would be tasered...HE WAS WARNED, yet he continued struggling and resisting arrest. If a suspect is resisting arrest the police have every right to taser him, it sure as hell is better then beating him.</p>
<p>Also, I love how he thought they were going to take him away and kill him....hahaha</p>
<p>Why don't conservatives ever get tasered? Oh yeah, because they could probably go cry to Sen. Daddy III instead of having to fight it out in the streets.</p>
<p>LaxAttack09,</p>
<p>Sure, protester-types can get annoying, but without their passion, you can kiss your lacrosse stick goodbye and head your drafted ass off to Iraq. I'm sorry if things like "civil liberties", "disenfranchisement" or "not fighting unjust wars" are mere annoyances to you, but to most intelligent people, they matter.</p>
<p>Plus, it looked like the police were tasering him AFTER he was handcuffed, so it was nothing but retaliation as opposed to the actual need to subdue him. And he's not some armed crack dealer; he's a college student in a polo shirt!</p>
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Why don't conservatives ever get tasered? Oh yeah, because they could probably go cry to Sen. Daddy III instead of having to fight it out in the streets.</p>
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<p>Sure, protester-types can get annoying, but without their passion, you can kiss your lacrosse stick goodbye and head your drafted ass off to Iraq.
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<p>Ummm....way to not address the video? Hahaha....can we keep it on topic?</p>
<p>If I go and disrupt a public forum by going on and on, never in fact asking a question, and continuing to do this when I am asked to stop, then resist the actions of police officers to escort me out (which they are supposed to do if I make a seen, see any protestors during speeches/testimonies in congress) and am then warned repeatedly about the consequences of not calming down I fully expect to get tasered. Furthermore I wont sit there and scream "OMG, they are going to take me away and kill me"</p>
<p>Haha...this guy went to make a scene and it backfired on him, thank god. He wasn't letting Kerry answer any of the question, he was making a speech and disrupting the event (notice how everyone applauded when he was taken out). He was asked repeatedly to stop and let kerry answer the questions....you don't have free reign to drone on and on for 2 minutes. They even cut his mic off and he still insisted on making a scene....this is akin to me standing up in the chambers in congress, or at a presidential speech, and starting to scream at the candidate/congressmen....it's a form of protest. Security comes and then escorts you out, and most of the time people go out bcuz they aren't nutjobs and realize this is how it goes. But hey, sometimes you run across a cocky kid like this who thinks he can just push the cops around, unfortunately he learned the hard way that you cannot. The police acted by the book....and if you don't believe that then you don't know what the book is. </p>
<p>I can definitely see both sides of this argument. Several cops should have been able to restrain and cuff him without use of a taser. At the same time, he was resisting the police and definitely giving them a hard time. If he's not a nutcase, then I bet drinking was involved. If that's what the police had to do, that's what they had to do.</p>
<p>Either way, the guy was clearly out of line with what he was doing; he should have been kicked out for sure. Whether a taser was necessary or not is the question.</p>
<p>According to the video, what the police did was appropriate according to Florida's use of force policies.</p>
<p>This guy deserved what he got, and I couldn't help but chuckle when he was getting tazed in front of everyone. Just a complete idiot.</p>
<p>"What did I doooo? What did I dooooo? Help meeeeeee!!! Oweeee!" shows how immature this punk really was.</p>
<p>I can't say for sure as I'm not privy to what the cops intentions were, but in the beginning of the video it looked as if the officers were just trying to escort him out without arresting him. It was only when this dude turned violent and started resisting that he got his but kicked, and rightly so.</p>
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<p>According to people that were actually there, he WASN'T handcuffed when he was tazed (see the thread in the Parent's Cafe forum or the UF forum, not sure which one had the eyewitness report). </p>
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And he's not some armed crack dealer; he's a college student in a polo shirt!
<p>The kid's a douche bag anyway you slice it.</p>
<p>I mean come on "Don't taze me BRO!" </p>
<p>I also like the skinny white kid yelling "Police brutality! RODNEY KING!"</p>
<p>The police were out of line, but radicals always will be oppressed. I for one don't really want to hear what they want to say. Those kids are paying good money to go to UF, and they wanted to go hear John Kerry and not have him be interrupted by this kid. </p>
<p>He was being clearly disruptive, and was obviously trying to intentionally disrupt the speech. The police, therefore, were well within their rights to try and remove him from the area.</p>
<p>Then, he tried to resist, made it extremely tough for the police. I have no problem with them tasering him.</p>
<p>The guy is clearly another nutcase with a point to prove. This is only confirmed in my mind by how he was yelling crap about how they were going to supposedly kill him, etc.</p>
<p>You know what the problem is? People recoil from violence like this. Tasering has happened for a long time, and people who get in confrontations with the police often get hurt a little bit. Respect the police. They have a job to do, and the vast majority of them try to do it without causing any pain. But if you intentionally get in their way, assault them, or anything like that, you should expect them to get hurt.</p>
<p>People somehow miss that in their recoiling horror over the violence, and completely forget that the guy committed several crimes - battery against a police officer, resisting arrest, disturbing the peace, etc. etc.</p>
<p>Why was this kid being arrested in the first place?</p>
<p>I hope you three smug little gnomes come face to face with this kind of abuse sometime in you lives, and you will look around pleadingly hoping that someone will help you.</p>
<p>Cuse0507, you openly admit that you take pleasure in viewing someone else's pain? You are soulless and have sided against humanity.</p>
<p>That "annoying kid" has more courage in his little finger than all three of you cowards cmbined.</p>
<p>And to the moderators: If you delete this comment and leave the "I'm CUSE0507 and I just love watching humans being tortured" comment than you can all go to hell.</p>
<p>i know you guys are having a serious conversation about conservatives and liberals right now.......but i can't help but laugh. that was absolutely hilarious.</p>
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<p>I hope you three smug little gnomes come face to face with this kind of abuse sometime in you lives, and you will look around pleadingly hoping that someone will help you.</p>
<p>Cuse0507, you openly admit that you take pleasure in viewing someone else's pain? You are soulless and have sided against humanity.</p>
<p>That "annoying kid" has more courage in his little finger than all three of you cowards cmbined.</p>
<p>And to the moderators: If you delete this comment and leave the "I'm CUSE0507 and I just love watching humans being tortured" comment than you can all go to hell.
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<p>At first he wasn't being arrested....he was being escorted out of the forum. It wasn't until he started screaming and resisting that they decided to arrest him. If you're being escorted out, and you decide to make a big scene, you can be arrested for disturbing the peace....then he decides to push the cops away, well now you got resisting arrest + assault on a police officer. Did you even read any article about it eddy? He wasn't even supposed to be there, he cut in front of other students when he was told there would only be 1 more question....he grabbed an empty mic and said his question would be answered. The police tried to take him out then but kerry said no, let him ask his question. After a couple of minutes of going on and on, clearly violating the rules of the forum, his mic was cut off....he STILL didn't get the picture and kept talking. Then the police decided enough was enough and they tried to take him out, then he resisted arrest and assaulted police officers....he got what he had coming to him.</p>
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<p>OMG, they're going to give me the government, they're going to kill me! Tell them that I was here today, you all saw me at the john kerry speech!</p>
<p>I think it's also important for all you non-Floridians to know that in FL, you can get a concealed weapons permit at the age of 21. The police HAVE to treat every person as armed... because they potentially all are.</p>
<p>You are DEAD WRONG LaxAttack, I watched the entire incident on video and over 50% of what you describe did NOT happen. You are making things up to justify your position in support of police brutality.</p>
<p>Here's a newsflash from the University of Florida: Two of the officers involved in the incident have been put on leave. I called the UF police department and a secretary there informed me that they have received THOUSANDS of phone calls in support of Andrew Meyer. </p>
<p>And don't give my any BS about this kid being armed, he was wearing a T shirt and holding his hands up in the air to show that he was not violent.</p>
<p>And eddyx77 what sources are you going on? Have you read the first hand accounts of what went down? Go to the UF forum on here... read the accounts. Then come back here.</p>
<p>Disney puts their character people on leave when someone accuses them of sexual harassment, but they're always brought back once proven innocent... so putting them on leave doesn't prove anything.</p>
<p>He also shoved several officers to prove he was not violent. Tasing was definitely the best solution for the officers in this situation. It effectively neutalized the situation and no one was injured. Having been tased myself, yes it hurts, but it wasn't like they went in with batons. </p>
<p>The police are absolutely in the right here. Disturbing the peace, resisting arrest, assault on a police officer are all reasonable charges. Eddyx77, he broke the law and if thousands of people want to call in to support his criminal actions, they are welcome to. The only thing I could see that the police did wrong was not use pepper spray before tasing him. Leave is SOP in cases like these.</p>
<p>I fail to see what was so brutal about this so called "police brutality." He was tased to subdue his resistance. He escalated the situation with his actions and now understands that if you shove and resist police officers, white and polo shirt or black and t-shirt, you're going to be subdued.</p>