Tasered student won’t be charged
A University of Florida student stunned by a police Taser and arrested after his fervent videotaped outburst at an event with Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) won’t be formally charged if he stays out of trouble for 18 months, prosecutors said in Gainesville.
Andrew Meyer’s shout of “Don’t Tase me, bro!” was ignored by campus police but helped make video clips of the 21-year-old being dragged from a microphone an Internet sensation.
The telecommunications major wrote apologies to the school; its president, J. Bernard Machen; and the campus Police Department, defense attorney Robert Griscti said.
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