Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student arrested and tasered after asking too many questions of Senator John Kerry, has had felony charges dropped in return for his acting contrite about the incident. The university police officers who tasered him have also escaped penalty and have returned to work.
Most of the attention on this story has focused on the use of tasers on a student by university police. This attention is misdirected. The more vital issue at stake is whether event organizers can a) censor questions asked during ’open mic’ q&a sessions and b) whether police officers can use force or the threat of arrest to stop a person from asking questions once they are invited to do so.
The independent report on the incident commissioned by the university found the university’s police officers justified in their actions including their use of a taser during the arrest. Andrew has even accepted their justification for use of this weapon. What no ones has yet commented on in a serious way is whether the forced termination of his question asking was lawful.Â
Daily Arraignment - Britney, Preppy Killer, Genarlow Wilson, NBA refs
26 Oct
Filed Under Uncategorized, Britney Spears, Preppy Killer (Robert Chambers), Genarlow Wilson, NBA referees | Leave a Comment
- Britney escapes August hit-and-run charge by settling with Mercedes owner for $1,000.
- Preppy Killer Robert Chambers faces life in jail for ten drug dealing counts.
- Genarlow Wilson Freed by Georgia Supreme Court on grounds ten year mandatory sentence for statutory rape constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
- NBA Commissioner David Stern admits over half of NBA referees gamble.
Will Madeleine McCann join the infamous list of children reported missing by parents who actually had a role in their murder? The British four year old was reported taken from an apartment on May 3, 2007 while on vacation in  Praia da Luz in the Algarve, Portugal with her parents. Now, Portugese police have named both parents suspects.
| Susan Smith, 1994 | Rolled car contained two sons into lake |
| Scott Peterson, 2002 | Drowned wife |
| Andrea Yates, 2001 | Drowned five children in bath tub |
| Chris Benoit, 2007 | Srangled 7 year old son before committing suicide |
| Source: USLaw.com | |
More family-on-family murders.
Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News an overnight package that included 29 photographs, videos, rambling prose.
Does the Manifesto speak to paranoid schizophrenia or a sane, but deeply evil person. Such inferences will certainly play a role in legal cases that seek to assign liability for the tragedy to university administration who it can be argued under reacted to the many warning signs of Cho’s potential to erupt and to a county magistrate and hospital system (Carilion St. Albans Behavioral Health Center) that failed to monitor a patient who at one point was ruled mentally unfit and “presented an imminent danger to himself as a result of mental illness.”
The television commentators content the manifesto indicates a mental disorder that could have been controled with medication. Yet, the physician who examined him under a commitment order in December, 2005 concluded “His insight and judgment are normal.”
Mentally Ill and in need of hospitalization, presents an imminent danger to self or others
18 Apr
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Virginia Tech police department arranged for order to be issued to detain Cho Seung Hui for psychiatric evaluation in December 2005. That order along with the evaluating physician’s report and resulting “court-ordered outpatient — to follow all recommended treatments” which was apparently not followed up.
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