Police Apparently Electrostun Boisterous U of Florida Student at Kerry Lecture
University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was apparently shocked with a stun gun and then arrested for disrupting a speech by John Kerry on campus with a long stream of loud questions. I’ve watched the video. Meyer was asking questions of Kerry, apparently monopolizing the microphone for a minute and a half (the video starts at the end of this period). Two police officers grab him and start to drag him away. More officers join the fray. They drag Meyer to the back of the lecture hall as he protests and asks why he’s being arrested; they get him on the floor; and then they audibly warn him that he will be Tasered if he continues to struggle. Seconds later, Meyer starts screaming “Ow! Ow! Ow!” He’s apparently being shocked with a stun gun from the sound of it.
Here in San Jose, as many as five people have died from being Tasered by police in certain circumstances, one in May of this year, despite the electronic Taser and other electro-stun weapons being billed as non-lethal devices.
Thirty seven years ago, US National Guard soldiers opened fire and killed four Kent State students who were protesting the Vietnam War. (Added note: apparently only two students were protesting. Two were just walking to class and got caught in the deadly fire.) Neil Young wrote a song about it. “Four dead in Ohio” sang Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.
The ghosts of Kent State students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Glen Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Knox Schroeder look on. The wheel turns.
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