I have no problems with this. Sure, I hate it that one of the players was our best LB, but if the bonehead wants to pick a fight with the cops, then he deserves to get zapped for it.

Did I see the same video you did? When you are told to get on the ground and/or put your hands behind your back and you keep trying to get to your feet screaming…that is resisting, and there ain’t no gray about it. They told him to lay on his stomach several times. Then they warned him he was about to be tased. From the point where they tried to put him on the ground they did everything right, but they should have removed him from the venue way before it got to that point.

Yes, he did commit a crime. Several, in fact.

The police were asked by the event director to remove Meyer. When he wouldn’t go under his own power it became disorderly conduct (and failure to obey a law enforcement command in some states). Then when he would not obey commands to place his hands behind his back and became violent that escalated it into resisting arrest. Some judges would interpret his screaming to the crowd “Help me” as inciting to riot. If, during his kicking and screaming, he happened to connect with one of the officers, then we have assualt on a law enforcement officer.

My arrest ticket would read:

Disorderly conduct
Resisting official detention
Assault on a law enforcement officer
Inciting to riot

Would they all stick? Maybe not, but they are all good charges.

Not only that, if I could find some sort of charge dealing with the fact that this was all a staged plan I’d hit him with that as well.

Where the officers messed up was that they were either not trained well enough or didn’t follow their training. Armlock the idiot and drag him out of the auditorioum as fast as you can. They kept trying to grab his arms and escort him out. Forget that. Get him away from the crowd as fast as possible.

The video’s at;

He didn’t actually seem to physically resist, but he wasn’t cooperating with police either, and that’s the gray area. SHOULD the police have moved in to subdue this guy right after shutting down his mic?

Was there another way of getting the guy to comply?

Those are going to be the questions asked by whoever has to investigate this. In NYC the Internal Affairs cops wouldn’t be too happy with that video.

I’ll say this, given that he wasn’t actively resisting and hadn’t committed an actual crime, it didn’t look all that good.

Of course, neither did John Kerry, who seems to have no trouble second-guessing American troops half a world away (he “KNOWS” they “terrorize innocent Iraqis” and LA Cops, 3000 miles from his Mass home – condemning the Bratton led crackdown on the Illegal Immigration rally/riot), but HERE, when faced with what looked like police strong-arming an obnoxious questioner, Kerry didn’t even raise his voice to intervene on the goofey kid’s behalf.

If the cops looked at all bad, in this, Kerry looked TEN times worse. His silence made it appear that he approved of and encouraged an obnoxious protestor being subdued merely for asking an obnoxious question!

Think about it, if this had been Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney speaking and a Moonbat got tasered in front of them – we’d have headlines about our “New Police State” from the mainstream media!

You’ve gotta love that double standard!

And I saw a better version of the video. Lee was correct. Idiot was hit with the stun gun part of the taser, not the darts. Still hurts, though.

I’m not sure I understand all the outrage over tasers…would you rather get hit with a Taser or a steel baton? With the taser, 45 minutes later you’re under arrest but fine…with the baton 45 minutes later you’re in the emergency room police holding area with broken bones…and STILL under arrest.

I hate to rain on your parade Jonathan, but Christmas apparently came early to FSU as well. Seems two FSU football players were arrested last night after getting into an altercation with TPD officers outside a bar… And one of the players got “lit up like a Christmas tree” via taser…

Almost as long as the “it’s Bush’s fault.” Almost.

1. Why concede the election if he felt he had one?
2. Why did he not try to get Bush impeached?
3. Was he a memeber of a secret fraternity known as skull and bones?

Granted all very stupid questions but nothing wrong with it, well there are no such things as stupid questions just stupid people. I can see having him ejected and he even told them before he was tazed he would “Walk out if they let him go”. I think the police were well out of line in this.

Ahh, the good old days….

I appoligise on behalf of Florida, we USED TO teach our children better manners than this.

Go Noles!

Don’t worry, it’s not like I’m inferring that moonbats are unique to UF. God knows I saw tons of them at FSU…many of whom were instructors! Nope, moonbattery is pervasive on virtually all college campuses.