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September 17, 2007

There are a million reasons LA is better than Gainesville, but both are home to major state universities with their own Taser-happy police forces. Earlier today, 21-year-old Florida student Andrew Meyer was apprehended by police and stunned with a Taser gun at a town hall meeting with Senator John Kerry on the UF campus. It seems he was tailed by the police as he came to ask the question -- challenging Kerry for not contesting the results of the 2004 presidential election.

You can hear the Taser at 3:09 after Meyer screams "don't tase me, bro!" Meyer was charged with disrupting a public event. Kerry did not appear to contest UPDATE: Kerry responds:

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