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The Student, the Officers, and the Taser Gun
By newsguy | September 20, 2007
On Monday, a 21-year-old student named Andrew Meyer stepped up to the microphone at a University of Florida event with John Kerry. The undergrad wanted to ask a question, or make a point, or hawk a book. Maybe he just wanted to heckle the one-time presidential candidate. What happened instead catapulted the senior to the top of every current event in America.
Andrew got a little heated in his quizzing of the senator. The police officers at the event got a little heated listening. They interfered. He resisted. Andrew got Tasered.
Within hours, video of the incident was racing across the Web and searches were proliferating at record speed. “john kerry” (+1,280%), “taser” (+533%), and “university of florida” (+108%) hurtled upwards.
Related queries like “andrew meyer tasered,” “florida student tasered,” and “john kerry taser” leapt. Demand for “andrew meyer video” and “taser student video” recorded huge gains. Even Greg Palast, the author of the book toted by the student, saw a rise in queries.
Now, two of the officers involved have been placed on “administrative leave,” and hundreds of students have hit the pavement at UF in protest of police brutality.
If Andrew Meyer wanted to provoke attention when he addressed the Massachusetts senator, he got it. But we doubt he wanted to come up against an electronic stun gun—or to be known forever as the guy who yelped, “Don’t Tase me, bro!”
Originally By Molly McCall
Thu, September 20, 2007, 3:14 am PDT
Topics: The Buzz |
September 20th, 2007 at 11:20 pm
No kidding! Heck, I run a website and I’d love some publicity like Meyers is getting. I invite The Man to tase me. We’ll get it all on camera, I’ll scream in fear, then scream in pain. It’ll be a hoot!
September 28th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article The Student, the Officers, and the Taser Gun, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.