UF Student Tasered at John Kerry Speech

[nycliveson]

Well, I'm sure you guys have already heard about this, but if you haven't, a UF student was tasered when he tried to ask a question to John Kerry who came to my school for a public forum which was sponsored by Accent, the student government speaker's bureau. Catch this video of it on Youtube if you haven't already:

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Comments

[leota]

I agree with you. I have had to restrain clients in my line of work for my own safety, and it's NOT easy. I have about 50 pounds on this girl that I work with, and she is HARD to restrain, she's technically a two person restraint but I've had to do it myself on occasion. I feel it must be incredibly hard to be a police officer and work for your own safety and the safety of the community when you have so many people looking over your shoulder and second-guessing your decisions. Not that restraints shouldn't be reviewed and looked at to see if what you did was within reason or if anything could be done differently, but I feel like there's such a blame put on them from people who have no idea what it's like to be in those positions or how they would react or what it's really like to be faced with someone who's completely out of control and beyond any kind of rational 'talking them down' approach. There's a difference between working with police to make them better at their jobs and making them answer for every decision they make in the

[happydominatrix]

I totally agree with you. If they had used physical force instead of a taser they could have done permanent or long-lasting injury to Meyer or as you said received injury themselves, whereas being tased is a very temporary thing.