(Updated at 4:55 p.m. Wednesday)
By now you may have read about and seen video footage of Andrew Meyer, a student at the University of Florida, being Tasered by police at a John Kerry speech.
New wrinkles and background information are emerging, for instance this item on Meyer’s reported behavior after the incident and this one on Meyer’s student journalism.
Still, Leiter Reports, which earlier asked whether “the campus cops at the University of Florida train at Abu Ghraib,” says the new information “hardly explains the tasering.”
Leiter links to Accidental Blogger, who writes:
“Even if one concedes that Meyer indeed is a publicity hound and asked provocative questions to garner attention, how could he have ‘staged’ the police reaction? Attendees at political meetings often wish to attract attention. No one wears a T-shirt with a message, holds up a banner, or asks a question of a politician in order to be unobtrusive. So what was new here? If the campus police at the University of Florida feel that Meyer’s enthusiasm for self-promotion is a defense for their own indefensible Gestapo-like action, it is laughable.”





