UPD Excessive Use of Force at Kerry Speech
I am appalled at the level of force used by University Police in the detainment of UF student Andrew Meyer at the John Kerry speech at the University of Florida on Monday September 17, 2007. The polic... continue reading »
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"Appalling no matter how insistent the questioner. Another ominous signal of the creeping fascism which fearmongering has bestowed upon us. . Zip code 34476-3681"
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"We complain about governments that abuse human rights and use excessive force in order to to silence their oponents. How can we then overlook this incident? We demand that our University, an institute of higher learning and enlightenment, stands up for th"
"a university should inspire open (and often h eated) discussion. physical force by the university police in this situation was not warrented ."
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"Asking tough questions, being pushy, recommending a book, and questioning a speaker is exactly what UF should WANT students to do. The police had no right to arrest him or attack him. His hands were in the air and they clearly could have gotten him in cuf"
"Freedom doesn't exist unless it's exercised. UPD should have their "less than lethal" torture toys taken away."
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"Tasers are extremely painful and inhumane should rarely be used at all."
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"The media - so far - has avoided the human rights and health issue of tasering and the mission-creep of militarization of our police force charged ONLY to "protect and serve". The taser is a terrorist instrument of social control designed to intimidate th"
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"I am shocked and appalled at the abuse of this student'scivil and human rights. There should be a full investigation and the officers involved should be put on leave without pay during the investigation. I thought we still had freedom of speech in this co"
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