University of Florida student arrested, Tasered

University of Florida police used a Taser to control a student and arrested him after he loudly and repeatedly tried to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.\nAndrew Meyer, 21, spent a night in jail before his release Tuesday morning on his own recognizance. Meyer, who has a history of taping his own practical jokes, had no comment when he left, and his attorney, Robert Griscti, did not return messages seeking comment.\nVideos of the Monday night incident show officers pulling Meyer away from the microphone after he asks Kerry about impeaching President Bush and whether he and Bush were both members of the secret society Skull and Bones at Yale University.\nUniversity spokesman Steve Orlando said Meyer was asked to leave the microphone after his allotted time was up. Meyer can be seen refusing to walk away and getting upset that the microphone was cut off.\nAs two officers take Meyer by the arms, Kerry, D-Mass., can be heard saying, “That’s all right, let me answer his question.”\nAudience members applaud, and Meyer struggles for several seconds as up to four officers try to remove him from the room. Meyer screams for help and tries to break away from officers with his arms flailing at them, then is forced to the ground and officers order him to stop resisting.\nAs Kerry tells the audience he will answer the student’s “very important question,” Meyer yells at the officers to release him, crying out, “Don’t Tase me, bro,” just before he is shocked by the Taser. He is then led from the room, screaming, “What did I do?”\nMeyer was arrested on charges of resisting an officer and disturbing the peace, according to Alachua County jail records, but the State Attorney’s Office had yet to make the formal charging decision. Police recommended charges of resisting arrest with violence, a felony, and disturbing the peace and interfering with school administrative functions, a misdemeanor.