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The police have been cleared in the tazing case at the University of Florida:
The University of Florida has reinstated two police officers who were suspended while state officials investigated their decision to use a stun gun on a student who interrupted a speech by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass....An executive summary of the state's investigative report says Meyer was "much calmer" while the officers were driving him to jail. Meyer, who didn't know he was being recorded in the car, was heard telling the officers "they did not do anything wrong," the report says.While Meyer was incarcerated, state investigators say the jail recorded two phone calls in which Meyer "appears to sound elated that the arrest has occurred and at one point states that he is happy this has happened." They spent a lot of time talking about all the "media exposure the incident has generated," the investigators say.
So basically, this kid wanted to get tazed? Why? Among other things to prove that police can be abusive in their use of tazers, which I agree with. So what did the police do? They gave him exactly what he wanted, and tazed him, and proved his point. And now, officials in Florida are basically saying that since he wanted to get tazed, the cops were justified in doing it. How stupid are these people? Though I guess it's this type of thinking that also sends SWAT teams with automatic weapons out to prevent a suicide. Next thing you know, abusive husbands will be allowed to hit their wives because they were asking for it.