UF Student Taserd for asking a question

Im a democrat, believe in the legalization of weed, and am a staunch opponent of poliice brutality. These cops are completely brutal, and disgusting. Having said that the little bastard at that john kerry speech had everything coming to him. He is a dumbass and deserved to get tasered. if we begin to punish cops for doing their job, there will be no good cops. When we punish people for doing their job society fails. Look I want weed to be legal too, and I know that police are out of control in the USA, but when we punish people for doing their job we are defeating the purpose of legalizing weed. it is a harmless herb and when dumbasses like that show up in discussions about legalizing it it completely defeats our purpose. It is American to question authority but what that piece of crap dude was doing was a publicity stunt and he deserved what he got. we will never get weed legalized if we continue to put idiots like him on a pedestal.

You should probably change the thread title to:
"UF Student Taserd for disrupting Q & A session, refusing to shut up when told, refusing to be escorted out of the building, and then resisting arrest."

That should do it.

"notice how they didn't arrest him yet or even ask him to leave, I'd call that pretty lenient" - ntcrawler

That is where I have a problem. I don't like how they can put their hands on him and remove him without giving him a reason. Granted he did start to fight it towards the end of the video but I wouldn't go quietly either if cops started forcing me out of the auditorium for no specified reason :(

they police were in the right for tazering him but in the wrong for making him leave in the first olace. A forum of a QandA sessionis NOT the place to escort someone out for making a forceful opinionated interjection. You don't tell someone to shut up when they are exercising their freedom of speech unless it encroaches on the freedom of speech of others. It's not as if his points were completely irrelevant either but because he showed a complete lack of regard for authority (kerry) this scared the police. The police were wrong for arresting him but he was wrong for resisting arrest, end of story.

Now how would you feel if you were the person in the back of the line and just got butted? You would probably just suck it up because its only one question! Oh wait, he gave 4 questions. How is that fair to his fellow man, I mean its so obvious that Meyer's multiple questions are so much more important then all the people he butted.

i would'nt mind as he would be askin the ? i would have and that would have saved me the trip