Thread: Why did that guy get tased?

I've changed my mind since right after that happened. The police were ridiculous in telling the kid to stop talking, so the police screwed up there. When all he did was merely keep talking, the police (if they were right, which they weren't) needed to verbally tell him to stop a few more times. They got physical way too quickly. Then the kid resisted, at which point tasering is justifiable, but he should not have been put in that situation in the first place.

That clip cuts out a lot of what happened. These two videos show much more:





I counted, he was asked 5 times to get to his question, which he never really did. Even when he did have a sentence that ended in a question, he didn't stop to hear John Kerry's reply. That's why he was cut off, because he was just preaching, not asking a question.

A normal Q&A session is like this:



As you can see, the person doesn't go on ranting and preaching. They ask their question, listen to the reply and move on.

When they cut his mic off, they first just tried escorting him outside. They didn't have cuffs out and seemed to have no intentions of arresting him at that moment. However, then he resisted. He pushed the officers and resisted as much as he could. The officers had no better solution, it was either let him rant all day when people were there to listen to someone else, or they could use some other force to get him out. So what would've been better? Hitting him with a baton?

If you think that the officers overreacted, then you're just looking at as if he asked normal question and got tased, but that's not what happened. All he would've had to do is ask and listen, but he never did.

And if you still disagree, then consider that Andrew Meyer (the victim) himself has since agreed that he was out of line and that the officers were doing their job. He says that in this interview:



Yes, I've discussed this before :p

Wow. I guess patriots and truth-seekers are the new terrorists :p

What did he do? Ask too many damn questions...one of the campus police officers had a smile on his face. That's sick....

How much time was between the cops' first request for him to stop talking and when the cops got physical? I am at work and can't hear it.

I think if the guy hadn't spoken with the tone he did while asking the question, then the police wouldn't have asked him to stop. Had he said it in a calm way then I bet there would have been no problem and the question would have been answered and without tasering.

Originally Posted by kingofclutch

I think if the guy hadn't spoken with the tone he did while asking the question, then the police wouldn't have asked him to stop. Had he said it in a calm way then I bet there would have been no problem and the question would have been answered and without tasering.

yea, your probally right.

That guy got pwned by that taser though. People were just sitting there watching like...wow..until he started screaming for help is when people started saying stop.

Originally Posted by Universal Mind

How much time was between the cops' first request for him to stop talking and when the cops got physical? I am at work and can't hear it.

In the first video I linked, he starts his "question" at 0:10. The officers ask him to get to his question at 0:35, 0:42, 0:48, 1:18, and then finally cut his mic at 1:40. So from the first time they tell him to ask his question, it's about 65 seconds or 1:05 before they cut his mic and start to escort him away. After all the struggling and hassle, he is actually tased at 3:08.

Originally Posted by Vampyre

In the first video I linked, he starts his "question" at 0:10. The officers ask him to get to his question at 0:35, 0:42, 0:48, 1:18, and then finally cut his mic at 1:40. So from the first time they tell him to ask his question, it's about 65 seconds or 1:05 before they cut his mic and start to escort him away. After all the struggling and hassle, he is actually tased at 3:08.

So there was never a warning about getting physical. He kept disobeying their demand that he get to the question and then he got to it, at which point they got physical. I have sound now, and I watched the video again. It looks like he asked about Skull and Bones and immediately got physically handled. That is unnecessary force. The cops should have said for him to stop talking or else be escorted out, if he really needed to stop talking, which I don't think he did. That part is ridiculous too. Once he was grabbed, however, he shouldn't have resisted. I still think the guy is an asshole and an attention getter.

For what it's worth, they cut it immediately after he asked about Skull and Bones. The soundboard isn't right beside them, so they would've motioned to have him cut off a few seconds previous to that. Probably around the same time he mentioned Clinton being impeached for a blowjob.

Originally Posted by HaRd_WiReD

Wow. I guess patriots and truth-seekers are the new terrorists :p

What did he do? Ask too many damn questions...one of the campus police officers had a smile on his face. That's sick....

He just wasn't asking a question. It was a university forum for people to hear from John Kerry and he went up and started ranting. Throughout his speach, he never stops talking for more than a second. So he clearly wasn't interested asking a simple question which is what the senator was there for. If he wanted answers to his series of questions, then he should've spoken with Kerry in an interview or something, not a public forum.