Student Tasered at Kerry Speech

    • The entire incident captured on video on several cameras
    • Meyer, 21, asked Kerry why he did not contest the 2004 presidential election
    • Meyer asked why there had been no moves to impeach Bush and about Kerry's membership of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones
    • Faces two charges: resisting an officer with violence and disrupting a school assembly (sic)
    • John Kerry issued the following statement: In 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way. I believe I could have handled the situation without interruption, but again I do not know what warnings or other exchanges transpired between the young man and the police prior to his barging to the front of the line and their intervention. I asked the police to allow me to answer the question and was in the process of answering him when he was taken into custody. I
  • A student, Andrew Meyer, 21, attending a speech by John Kerry at the University of Florida was tasered by police after he asked awkward questions and protested about being hauled away.

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