Seems Taserboy Was Playing To The Cameras
I loved Drudge’s headline: CLASS CLOWN: KERRY PROTESTER TOLD COPS, ‘YOU DID NOTHING WRONG’
Police have released the incident report detailing the Tasering of a University of Florida student during a campus forum with Sen. John Kerry Monday, and the officer who actually Tasered Andrew Meyer wrote in the report that Meyer later told police, “You didn’t do anything wrong.”
In the 12-page report, which gives accounts of the incident from the perspective of eight different officers who were present Monday afternoon, Officer Nicole Mallo writes that Meyer would only resist officers when cameras were present.
“As (Meyer) was escorted down stairs (at the University Auditorium) with no cameras in sight, he remained quiet, but once the cameras made their way down stairs he started screaming and yelling again,” Mallo wrote.Mallo was one of two officers who actually rode in the vehicle as Meyer was escorted to the Alachua County jail, and she said said he told them during the ride: “I am not mad at you guys, you didn’t do anything wrong, you were just trying to do your job,” according to Mallo’s account.
Mallo also wrote in her report that he asked, at one point, if cameras would be present at the jail.
September 18, 2007 - 11:57 PM on September 18th, 2007
I wonder if that officer was one of the thugs who were placed on leave with a misconduct investigation pending?
September 19, 2007 - 07:36 AM on September 19th, 2007
I don’t like the fact that Democrat hacks like WRKO morning host, convicted felon Finneran, laughed at the kid during an interview. I wonder if this Democrat hack and his producer would be funny to watch if they were tased?
September 19, 2007 - 07:48 AM on September 19th, 2007
While being tased is not pleasant, Taserboy was indeed playing it for all it was worth. Having gained the limelight and attention he planned on, the intervention by police and tasing was frosting on the cake.
Now he can sue, he is an Internet video rock star, and he has achieved instant fame and status with the wacko anarchist moonbat crowd who are screeching about his “rights” while forgetting that he was trampling on the free speech rights of others by his planned actions.
So not only do I not feel sorry for him, I think he deserves every bit of scorn, ridicule, mocking, and laughter he gets. I heard a version of the audio played on a local radio station that had Kerry’s ~1971 statement before Congress (where he backstabbed and sold out his fellow Vietnam Vets) mixed in. It was funny; you hear Kerry’s calm, measured deliberate, lying voice talking about “wires connected to genitals” and “razing villages” with Taserboy shrieking in the background. It was classic.
September 19, 2007 - 08:04 AM on September 19th, 2007
1- SF, putting them on leave is standard procedure, they are being paid.
3- Robert, he can try to sue, but I really don’t think that it will go too far. If you look at the video link from start to finish, he became physical with the cops on at least 4 occassions. There are numerous eye witness accounts that state that the kid pushed himself to front of line…I guess he never learned to wait in line? I may not like him, but lets not forget that Kerry is a U.S. Senator, and he is rightfully afforded protection. This kid may have thought he was cute, but he was clearly not in control of his own actions!
September 19, 2007 - 08:16 AM on September 19th, 2007
The fact that he dosnt blame the police is going to desapoint the lawyers and liberals
September 19, 2007 - 10:51 PM on September 19th, 2007
I was listening to a conservative talk radio show host today, and he was blasting his fellow Cons for thinking this is a laughing matter and the kid got what he deserved.
His point was: It doesn’t matter how obnoxious the questions were or if he went “over” his time limit…because Kerry is on tape repeatedly saying he’ll answer the question.
His time limit was thus extended by Kerry himself.
And we should ALL be a bit concerned that the police – the representatives of the state – taser a man who is only practicing his first amendment right of free speech.
He wasn’t threatening to Kerry, he didn’t have a weapon…he was only speaking and they tried to drag him away as he was using his right of free speech.
He was thrashing about because they were acting unfairly and unlawfully.
I’d fucking trash about if some pig tried to drag me away from a microphone.
Wouldn’t you?
And the Con talk show host said all Cons who make light of this should be ASHAMED.
Shame, Peejz. Shame.
September 19, 2007 - 11:11 PM on September 19th, 2007
6- Kerry is heard repeatedly telling the kid that he will answer the question if taserboy will let him, but taserboy’s response was hold on, I’m not done, I waited 2 hours for you, you can wait for me…so let’s not pretend Kerry was yelling to the cops to back off…
Taserboy was being watched by the cops because he insisted on going to the front of the line, Kerry afforded him that cause the kid was being an asshole to his fellow students.
You have a right to say what you want, but that doesn’t guarantee there will be no consequences. For example, we have the right to sue someone that exercised their right to free speech, it’s called slander. You can tell your boss to f’ off, but your boss can tell you to look for other employment.
Taserboy is shown very clearly disobeying the police..
That conservative talkshow host must have really made an impression on you..I can tell by how many times you referred to him by name.
Shame on me for what?
September 20, 2007 - 05:22 AM on September 20th, 2007
6, SFL, In Boston on WRKO, the morning host, a convicted Felon and former Speaker of the Massachusetts House, had Taserboy on the phone and laughed at him. SO lets see some of your “Love” for your fellow moonbats who laughed at Taserboy.
September 20, 2007 - 06:16 AM on September 20th, 2007
“And we should ALL be a bit concerned that the police – the representatives of the state – taser a man who is only practicing his first amendment right of free speech.”
There is no First Amendment right to free speech on private proptery.
Once he resisted, all bets are off. The police have a right and an obligation to protect the publuic and themselves. The resist was the trigger for that.
A perfectly acceptable reaction by the police.
“He was thrashing about because they were acting unfairly and unlawfully.”
No they weren’t.
“I’d fucking trash about if some pig tried to drag me away from a microphone.”
And you would be tasered or even asped.
September 23, 2007 - 09:57 AM on September 23rd, 2007
As much as it pains me to agree with SFL and John Kerry on anything, I have to agree that the kid shouldn’t have been tasered. As soon as John Kerry said that he’d take the kid’s questions, the police and everyone else there should’ve let the kid speak and Kerry respond. The commentator should have control of the room and everyone in it. Likewise I agree with one of the callers to either Rush or Sean Hannity’s show the other day who said a taser probably wouldn’t have been necessary had the university NOT been so intent on their desire to have a “diverse” police force. Does anyone really believe that taser boy would’ve put up as much resistance to a 6′4″ posterchild for the WWE as he would to a pair of 5′4″ pixies? While I have nothing against female police officers, there are just some situations where intimidation is a useful tool and it’s hard to intimidate someone who towers over you. In the words of Clint Eastwood from the movie “In the Line of Fire”, “Sometimes a good glare is more useful than a gun.”
I’ve probably avoided more fights by simply using subtle techniques to intimidate the other guy into not taking a swing than I care to think about. My 5′7″ former police officer brother on the other hand had to resort to overt threats on occasion (working the pump on a 12 ga pump action shotgun is VERY effective for that) to encourage people to surrender without putting ether of them at risk of injury.
September 23, 2007 - 06:36 PM on September 23rd, 2007
10- it wasn’t up to Kerry and Kerry was speaking to the audience, not the cops, when he said it. He realized the kid was not coming back, but he told the audience that was sitting there that he would try to answer what the kid had said/asked..the show had to go on, and Kerry actually handled it quite well.