Don’t Tase Me, Bro!

This isn’t your parents’ activism.

Last week, Andrew Meyer, a University of Florida junior, stood up at a campus forum in Gainesville hosting 2004 presidential candidate and U.S. Senator John Kerry. He thanked the Senator for his time, for “being open and honest,” recommended the book Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast, raised the question of disenfranchised voters in Florida and Ohio, asked why Kerry conceded the 2004 election, called for the impeachment of President Bush and asked if Sen. Kerry was a member of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones. After Meyer’s allotted one minute was up, he was dragged away from the microphone, kicking, screaming and “resisting arrest.” Meyer continued resisting the campus police officers and was eventually forced to the ground, shouting “don’t Tase me, bro!” before being shocked by a Taser. The rowdy scene immediately erupted into a series of Meyer’s whimpered “ows.”