Well here's yet another example of the police trying to do their job and liberals getting their panties all in a knot over it.
A minute or so into what became a combative diatribe, Meyer's microphone was turned off and officers began trying to physically remove him from the auditorium. Meyer flailed his arms, yelling as police tried to restrain him.
He was then pushed to the ground by six officers, at which point Meyer yelled, "What have I done? What I have I done? Get away from me. Get off of me! What did I do? Help me! Help."
Police threatened to use a Taser on Meyer if he did not "comply," but he continued to resist being handcuffed. He was then Tased, which prompted him to scream and writhe in pain on the floor of the auditorium.
So the police had given him a warning that he would be Tased, but yet in the video, you can still see him flailing his arms about. At the beginning of the video, you can clearly see the guy stick his hand into the face of the officer.
As Meyer was escorted away, he was followed by several students, including Matthew Howland, 20. Howland, a UF senior who said he didn't know Meyer, said he was "appalled" by the way UPD officers handled the situation. Howland acknowledged that Meyer had acted inappropriately by "rushing" the microphone and forcing a question on Kerry.
"It's a perfect example of when officers take something to a level that is not necessary," he said. "The officers escalated that situation."
So the guy admits that he acted inappropriately and "rushed" the microphone and forced a question onto Senator Kerry. So what are the police supposed to think? Is this guy a threat? Does he have a weapon? He is clearly seen as flailing his arms around and would not leave peacefully when ordered to do so.
This is the same kind of liberal bullshit that cops get all the time. When bad guys with guns show up and start shooting up the place, police get blames for not doing enough or knowing ahead of time that something might happen.
Then, when they have a real life looney on their hands, they try to get him to leave peacefully, he won't and he's arrested. He clearly resists arrest, despite of what he's saying, and is warned that he'll be tazed if he doesn't comply. You even see a flash of light and a clear Taser noise at minute 2:49 in the video. He was clearly warned and yet continued to resist arrest.
The kid had it coming and has a history of pulling publicity stunts like this according to witnesses.
Take for example, the comments he makes right after his arrest:
"There are people who know I'm here. You can't just, just you know, kill me."
However, over at Huffington Post, they seem to think that this is all a "grave injustice". You know, I'm getting REALLY sick and tired of publicly shaming the idiots over at Huffington, but they keep coming up with dumb statements and backing it up with as few facts as possible:
And third, the police officers in this video are absolute scum. They should all be fired, and the one who used the Taser should be put in jail. It was bizarre and irrational for them to attack Meyer, a display of utterly unprovoked violence. The sheer brazenness of it, in front of an auditorium and multiple cameras, chills me. You can't go to a microphone and question an elected official (and again, there was nothing abusive or even particularly combative about these questions) without fear of being dragged off and tased? Apparently, Nick Antosca can't be bothered to actually WATCH the videos he posted. And yes Nick, if you're asked to leave, a place, then you leave. Failure to leave will result in your removal and possible tazering as this kid found out.
The use of tasers on handcuffed prisoners, particularly when, like Meyer and Mustafa Tabatabainejad, the prisoner has done absolutely nothing wrong and is unarmed, is straight torture.
WATCH THE FUCKING VIDEOS IDIOT, he wasn't handcuffed, he was partially handcuffed. Meaning only one hand was in the cuffs and you clearly see him jump up after officers were trying to get him down. He was CLEARLY resisting arrest and was not cuffed when he was tazed.
It's these same kind of people that like to say "George Bush is responsible for X" when they have zero evidence and zero facts on their side.
Travis
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