Kid get's tazered at Kerry speech

[MrJiggyFly]

those cops should get a medal for bringing that hippy puke the pain.


but in all seriousness...I'm glad the kid got tazed because he is an attention whoring douchebag and probably had it coming for a long time, but I really can't tell if they needed to actually taze him when they had him pinned on the ground. Hard for me to decide if the force was excessive or not.

[NismoFREAK]

Originally Posted by dsuave624

Was he being arrested or was he just being escorted out for disruptive behavior? He started yelling, "why are you arrresting me". We don't if they were or not.

At first I thought this was a case of cops abusing their power and using excessive force, but now that I read the articles and see the video, he did have it coming. He was trying to make a scene and was just craving attention. He was yelling and screaming and causing a scene. He was disrupting the presentation and the campus police had every right to ask to leave for disorderly conduct. Everything was civil unitl he got out of line. They tried to remove him from the auditorium, he resisted and fought back, and got tazed. GOOD FOR HIS ASS!!

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[MADMIKE]

well kerry wanted to answer his question. i think that it would have been fine if the cops didnt intervine right way

[Zilveo]

Resisting arrest is kinda retarded...but then again getting arrested for no reason is even worse. This is definitely gonna sting for Kerry. Was it campus police or "secret" service that intervened?

[AngryBot]

What a whiny bitch, probably a faggot theater major. If what that other student said is legit, then that kid got exactly what he deserved.

[MADMIKE]

telecom major actually

[Sassan]

what are you guys talking about? He had every one of his civil liberties violated. They were going off about him taking too long to ask his question. But if you listen to what he was saying, he had asked two questions, and had one more to go, but wanted to provide some background info first.

Cops messed up big time.

His brakes are gonna fail sometime in the near future, and this kid will never be heard from again either.

[AngryBot]

^^But it wasn't his turn.

Originally Posted by Zuldane

I was listening to the radio last night and heard another student describe what happened. He said that Kerry was in the middle of answering someone else's question and the kid barged to the front of the line and took the mic. The cops followed him up there cuz they didn't know what he was going to do...they let him rant for awhile and then asked him to leave. When he didn't leave they removed him.

From everything I've heard this kid is an attention whore and does this kind of thing a lot.

[MADMIKE]

if i dont see it happen on tape i dont believe it......

could be just kids who dont like him or pranking about it

[PsyKoh]

Just heard on the news some guest blaming Bush for this...

[bkal]

From what I understand, he didn't have a ticket either.

I'm so annoyed by this. The Alligator (UF's unofficial school paper) devoted a good 8 pages, excluding half of the opinion section (1 page). The paper was only 18 pages today, with about 6 in classified ads. Paper is usually a good read, but not when every story is the same damn thing.

Apparently there was also a march yesterday from the Plaza of the Americana's to the UFPD station, and somewhere else.

EDIT: I love how everybody cheers initially...lol. I don't see how it took 4-5 cops to take down one guy. Couple of pressure points would have brought him to his knees.

[Michael K]

1.) He cut the line
2.) He took longer than the two minute limit to ask questions
3.) Even though Kerry wanted to answer the questions, he wouldn't shut up long enough to hear Kerry
4.) When asked to leave, he refused.
5.) When being physically escorted, he resisted
6.) He was warned several times that if he didn't comply he would be tazed, and still refused to comply.
7.) On the ground, they were able to get one cuff on him before they tazed him, but he was resisting to a point that they were having a hard time getting the other cuff on. A belligerent person with the cuffs dangling off one wrist can be dangerous if he breaks free and starts flailing that arm. The loose side of the metal cuffs can cause serious injury if they hit someone like that.
8.) He was not being arrested originally, only escorted out.
9.) A person who refuses to exit a property when asked to do so by someone in authority, is technically trespassing under the law in most states.

I'm going to have to back the cops on this one.

[fishbone]

Amendment schmendment. If I say "screw your mom" around here and mean it, I get my ass banned for acting like a deuchebag and breaking the accepted etiquette around here. Same for that guy. It's not a rights issue. Just general deuchebaggery and attention whore-ism. Some people are too paranoid or too quick to jump the gun and point at the "man" or the system. Not saying we shouldn't be vigilent, but there's a line. Notice at the end how his peers seemed to support the cops? If I'm not mistaken, I almost heard them cheering?

[Xtrema]

Well if that was the president on stage, there would be a couple bullets in his head now.

Cops did the right thing. He asked someone to get the camera ready before running to the mic. He's an attention whore.

[m_turner_02]

granted he was resisting arrest, but there was no reason for him to be asked to get down off the podeum in the first place. if asking controversial questions is against the rules when you get to the mic, then yes, he should have been asked to leave. but to be asked to get down from the mic for asking a few questions seems a little ludacris to me. and i definitely think that the police did use excessive force on the student. at least thats my take on it