Police report student told them: 'You didn't do anything wrong'

by merrie | September 18, 2007 at 10:21 pm

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GAINESVILLE - Police have released the incident report detailing the Tasering. The officer who actually Tasered Andrew Meyer wrote in the report that Meyer later told police, "You didn't do anything wrong."
Meyer was escorted to the Alachua County jail, and she said said he
told them during the ride: "I am not mad at you guys, you didn't do
anything wrong, you were just trying to do your job.
Mallo also wrote in her report that he asked, at one point, if cameras would be present at the jail.

"He went there to ask some tough questions," Levy said.

Another friend and UF student, Michael Goldman, said he didn't believe Meyer intended for anything unusual to happen.

However, one of the many videos circulating of the incident was shot with Meyer's own camera.

Clarissa Jessup, who was standing near Meyer just before UF Police Tasered him and took him into custody, said Meyer asked her to film him asking Kerry a question just before he approached the microphone.

That has given rise to rumors that Meyer, who aspires to work in the national media, was hoping to get arrested or videotaped as part of some sort of elaborate stunt. But Jessup, who says she never met Meyer prior to the forum, says she thinks he simply wanted a video of himself talking to Kerry.