Update...charges dropped, Bro!
http://www.abcactionnews.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=ddaef85c-37bd-42a4-9eed-e672a9981afd
Florida student tasered at Kerry speech won't be charged
Last Update: 7:07 am
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The Florida student arrested and stunned with a Taser for yelling questions at a John Kerry event won't face criminal charges.
Andrew Meyer's attorney says they reached a deal with prosecutors to dismiss the case. The 21-year-old student wrote apologies to the school, its president, and the campus police department.
The attorney says he still doesn't think the Taser was justified, but Meyer was sorry. In the letters, the student admits crossing the line and regrets bringing Florida bad publicity.
The campus police officers involved are back to work after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement cleared their use of force last week.
Meyer is taking this semester off, but plans to resume school in January and finish his degree this summer.
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Comment: No doubt, folks on both sides will spin the final chapter of this story...i.e.:
Meyer was extremely lucky because he deserved to be branded a lifetime felon for "disrupting" (using language from comedycentral) a political pageant mis-advertised as a "forum" .
or...
another cf swept under the rug.