On the day he was Tasered, Andrew Meyer told his mother he was happy because his arrest would bring important issues to light.
Recordings of Meyer's first telephone call from the Alachua County Jail and videos from inside the police car that took him there were made available Tuesday, the same day his probation notice and personal statements were released.
During his first call, he told his father, Joel Meyer, that he knows he got "excited" at the speech by Sen. John Kerry on Sept. 17, but he didn't think it warranted getting Tasered and arrested.
"What a joke," Meyer said when his dad picked up. "What happened to the First Amendment, right?"
Joel Meyer reminded his son not to say anything he'd regret, to which Meyer responded, "You wanna sue the bastards?"
Meyer and his father speculated about "FBI henchmen" who they said were probably listening to the conversation.
When he addressed "whoever is listening," Joel Meyer said, "If you touch a hair on his head - if anything happens to him - there's gonna be really recourse."
During a call the next day, Meyer joked to his father that the jail was enjoyable.
"I wanted to smile for my mug shot," Meyer said.
Joel Meyer reminded his son to be humble.
"No smiling, you know, for the cameras," Joel Meyer said.
In the car the day before, Meyer asked police about the legality of his arrest, chatted with them about the UF football team and complained about how tight his handcuffs were.
"I can't feel the circulation in my hand here, bro," Meyer said.
He asked officer Lynn Mallo to explain why he was charged with resisting arrest with violence.
"I would have never hit you," he said. "You were just doing your job."
Mallo said she was trying to help Meyer by telling him to calm down.
"Honestly, I read '1984,' and I felt like, like you guys were gonna take me out back and execute me," Meyer said, leaning forward in his seat. "I was so scared."
Mallo assured Meyer police wouldn't kill him.
