Student Tasered at Kerry Lecture

[Tom Earp]

In finally seeing a better shot of footage, with that many Officers surrounding him, and they could not subdue him? I am woindering what is wrong with this picture.

There is a difference in subduing and tasering.

That is used as a last resort before shooting a person.

Thank goddnes they did not do that!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

In finally seeing a better shot of footage, with that many Officers surrounding him, and they could not subdue him? I am woindering what is wrong with this picture.

There is a difference in subduing and tasering.

That is used as a last resort before shooting a person.

Thank goddnes they did not do that!

The very first national report of this did say that he was shot - that's what caught my attention.

Now that I know it was campus police, and not local police, it does put a different spin on things.

[LaneSig]

http://www.alligator.org/articles/20...mpus/savvy.txt

Meyer no stranger to controversy

By KORI FREDERICK, Alligator Writer
Monday's Tasering did not mark the first time Andrew Meyer has been surrounded by controversy.

On Sept. 11, he protested with a giant sign on Turlington Plaza that claimed President Bush was responsible for the terrorist attacks of 2001.

On March 11, 2005, he wrote a column for the Alligator detailing his love of being confrontational.

"I absolutely love the thought that some nonsense I wrote irritated people enough for them to take time out of their day to let everyone know how much they disliked what I wrote," the column said.


From the bottom of the column, and maybe the real reason all of this happened:
Meyer, who celebrated his 21st birthday Sept. 15, runs a Web site -- www.theandrewmeyer.com -- where he airs his views on music, movies and politics. The site has had more than 45,000 hits since the arrest.