“When the government fears the people there is LIBERTY;
when the people fear the government there is TYRANNY.”
-Thomas Jefferson
Click here to see the Youtube video of University of Florida student Journalist, Andrew Meyer, being handcuffed and tasered for asking a question of US Senator John Kerry after a structured Q and A session in Gainesville, FL last week.
University of Florida student, Andrew Meyer, is the latest Youtube insta-celeb.
Video of him being restrained and telling a police officer, “don’t tase me bro!” before screaming in pain after a Taser shock, has been viewed over 400,000 times already.
βIn 37 years of public appearances, through wars, protests and highly emotional events, I have never had a dialogue end this way.β Kerry said. βI hope that neither the student nor any of the police were injured. I regret enormously that a good healthy discussion was interrupted.β See Video by pressing play here:
I think Mr. Kerry was understandably embarased by the police officers’ use of excessive force at his event and I would hope most Americans would agree that what happened should never happen to a journalist in the United States.