Florida campus cops on leave after Taser incident

[Omaha Steve]

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Two University of Florida police officers have been placed on leave with pay after using an electronic stun gun to subdue a student who was questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus forum, the school's president said Tuesday.

The Florida Division of Law Enforcement will investigate Monday's arrest of student Andrew Meyer, said J. Bernard Machen. Machen called the incident "regretful for us."

"The thing that I regret is that civil dialogue and civil discourse did not happen," Machen said. "That's fundamental to a university campus. Why it didn't happen is what we're trying to sort out."

During Monday's forum, Meyer came to the microphone to question why the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee from Massachusetts did not contest his loss to President Bush in the pivotal state of Ohio over allegations that African-American voters were disenfranchised, why he did not support Bush's impeachment and whether he belonged to the Yale University secret society Skull and Bones, as Bush did.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/09/18/student.tasered/

[StClone]

1. Thousands manhandled by goons

Protesting Bush. Where is that coverage?

[Riddler]

2. Not to mention the student would never have even had the chance, nor would ANYONE

have had a chance to ask the sheltered-away-from-reality bubble boy any question in public.

[Acadia Blue]

6. The corporatist media is making $$$ off Bush and the war. They

are heavily invested in the military industrial complex and the rePIGlican party.

[pattmarty]

3. On the road to Fascism...............

[goforit]

4. Oh really???.... Stand Tall!

[Xenotime]

5. This is suppression of the Democratic Party by *

plain and simple. We are now a police state. Freedom of sppech is gone.

[Acadia Blue]

7. Yes........it is happening slowely. Started with that monster Reagen.