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On 09/17/07 at 1015 hours, I was working an overtime function at the University Auditorium
for Accent presents Senator John Kerry. There were approximately 350 plus people in
attendance. At approximately 1245 hrs., Ambassador Jett informed the audience that there
would be a question and answer session and that Senator Kerry would only be answering
about 6 questions, 3 on each side of the room where there were microphones set up. Senator
Kerry told Ambassador Jett that he might be able to answer a couple more, time permitting.
Senator Kerry was answering questions during the "question and answer stage" of his
presentation when the audience was told there would only be one question left to be answered.
After the question was answered, Senator Kerry stated the question and answer was over and
thanked the audience for asking their questions. The approximate number of people in line
asking questions was about 20, and Senator Kerry answered about 8 questions. All of the
people standing in line started to dissipate and either sat back down or started to leave.
As Senator Kerry was ending his speech, a man disrupted the senator by screaming, yelling,
and flailing his arms. The man moved his way down the aisle yelling, "Why don't you answer
my questions, I have been waiting and listening to you speak in circles for the last two hours."
"These officers are going to arrest me". I didn't see any officer directly next to him until I
noticed Officer Wise walking down trying to get his attention. The man was screaming and
yelling obscenities until Senator Kerry told him to calm down and that he would take his
question, but he needed to calm down. At that point, the man stated, "You will take my
question because I have been listening to your crap for two hours". The man at that point
turned to his friend and said, "Are you taping this? Do you have this? You ready?" The man
was talking to a woman who was there to film him. Before asking the question, I had a chance
to ask the man if he was a student and he stated, "I don't have to tell you." I the asked him if
he knew the rules to the student code of conduct and he said, "What?" I informed the man
that after he asked Senator Kerry the question that I needed to talk to him outside. After
asking the question, the man would not let Senator Kerry finish his statement and kept
badgering the senator about his beliefs, talking about "blow jobs", and yelling as loud as he
could as to sensationalize his presence.
At that moment the Accent Director, Max Tyroler, asked us to take him out of the auditorium
and had his microphone turned off stating, "He had said enough." Officer Wise and I
grabbed both of the man's arms and asked him to come with us out of the auditorium to
speak with us. The man then lifted me up and pushed Officer Wise to avoid being taken into
custody. As he pushed and kicked Officer Wise, Sgt. King grabbed him and escorted him out
of the room, but the man pushed Sgt. King out of the way and was yelling and trying to get
back down the aisle. At this point Officer Sexton, Officer De Jesus, and Officer Lamb tried to
assist Officer Wise and Sgt King in getting a hold of the punching and kicking irate man
while Officer Dean, Officer Passero, and Officer Spurlin were present trying to assist. The
man continued to scream and yell as well as push, kick, and elbow the officers attempting to
take him into custody. After multiple attempts to tell him to stop resisting, the man said,
"No" and continued to push and elbow the officers. Only one handcuff was placed on the man
as he continued to punch his way out of the hold. The officers could not get a hold of his other
arm as he was kicking, punching, and elbowing into officers. After many attempts to get the
man to comply, he chose to continue actively resisting the officers. I obeyed the command
from Sgt. King to utilize the taser for the continuation of non-compliance by the man. One
contact tase to the man's left shoulder was deployed for the duration of its cycle. After the
cycle ended, the man was asked to comply and stop resisting and for a brief moment he did, at
which time he was placed in handcuffs. After he was lifted to his feet, he kept screaming and
yelling to let him go by continually pushing the officers. I read the man his Miranda rights
and explained why he was being placed under arrest. As the man was escorted down stairs
with no cameras in sight, he remained quiet, but once the cameras made their way down
stairs he started screaming and yelling again. Some of the comments that the man made were
"You can't kill me.", "They are giving me to the government." and "They are going to kill
me."
The man was identified not only by the people there filming for him, but also by a business
card he had on him that had his picture on it. The card read, "TheANDREWMEYER.com
"Speak my mind." I asked him if he was Andrew Meyer and he said, "Yes, I am."
Meyer was transported to the Alachua County Detention Center by my myself and Officer
Vinson. Meyer stated he just wanted Senator Kerry to hear what he had to say and that he
was upset when he ended the questions without being heard. Meyer stated, on the way to the
jail, "I am not mad at you guys, you didn't do anything wrong, you were just trying to do
your job." Meyer was laughing and being lighthearted in the car, his demeanor completely
changed once the cameras were not in sight. Meyer did ask, at one point, if the cameras were
going to be at the jail.
Meyer was charged with disturbing the peace (interfering with a school function) and
resisting with violence. A use of force report was filled out and Meyer was sent a Judicial
affairs form for his actions. None of the officers injured needed to seek medical attention and
the injuries sustained from this incident were digitally documented.
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