University of Florida Student Tasered At Political Rally

An anonymous reader writes "During a political rally at the University of Florida, an annoying student was tasered while attempting to ask Senator Kerry (D-MA) some questions regarding the 2004 election. Police are looking into whether excessive force was used to prevent the student from going over his alloted question period." There are also several YouTube videos available of the incident.

Comments

Re:When someone is being an ass, don't drag them o

[mwvdlee]

There's really not that much "version of story", since there's video showing him strugling against the police for a long time before a taser is used.

Geez

[multipartmixed]

Next thing you know, Nixon will be calling in the National Guard to KILL students!

Oh, wait.. never mind, that already happened.

Gotta Love the Hypocrisy

[leadsling]

Reading through these comments, it amazes me how many of them are along the line of "He deserved it" or "He tried to provoke it". If that had been President Bush or Vice-President Cheney that this incident occurred to, I would have seen the word "Nazi" in many forms at least 200 times by now in these comments. This underlines the point that the vast majority of US campuses support free speech, as long as it is left speech.

Re:Amazing

[workindev]

Interesting how your perception of who is "insane" isn't the people who were laying down on the ground in front of charging horses and then complaining about being trampled.

Re:Strike Three

[psykocrime]

regardless of whether the police were doing the right thing, the crowd should have tried to save the guy.. this is frighteningly close to people being too afraid to do anything when their neighbors are dragged away by the gestapo, and the threat is clear in the video "stay in your seats or you'll be tasered and arrested too."

Well said, friend.