....so, you wanna see some police brutality? Do ya? I bet you do!
Well, there's enough video on here, so here is the link to this video.
Apparently, the short version of the story is, UCLA Library, computer lab. An Arab student couldn't produce his student ID or Library card when asked (they do random checks). So they asked him to leave, which he did not do immediately. The Community Service Office (whatever that means) who asked for it left, then came back shortly thereafter with campus police. The Arab student was in the process of leaving when they arrived.
They grabbed him, argued, and then began using a taser on him. Multiple times. They threatened other students with the Taser as well.
Well, here's the details of the article:
At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.
The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.
It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.
As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
Here's the link to the full article.
And this is the state of the Nation today
Today's state of the Nation...
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Posted by Hobbs von Wackamole at 12:51 PM
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This is really fucked up. Fine arrest the guy for being suspicious, but the fucking taser his ass several times? Why because he would not stand up? What the fuck, drag him out hand cuffs, you a fucking cop. This baiscally amounts to toture and I hope this student sues the pants off UCLA, the UCLA police and whomever else he can.
Assholes.
Danny Noonan: I gotta go to college.
Ty Webb: You don't have to go to college. This isn't Russia. Is this Russia? This isn't Russia.
not to mention, they told him to get up, AFTER they tazered him.
He couldn't get up, he was HIT WITH A TASER
Oh Jesus Christ, what a bunch of cry babies. He was tresspassing, he was in the library after 11:30 p.m. without valid ID. They told him to go. He didn't. The CSO left and came back with Police and the guy was still there. The whole time it took the CSO to go out and get the cops the guy was still there.
They try to escort him out and he resists and starts being an asshole. He's lucky all he got was a couple of Tasers.
Hey, asshole, bring your ID to the library and leave when told to do so. Read the full article and do a little thinking for yourself. These cops didn't just surprise some kid at the book counter and start beating him up.
Not only would I prosecute this jerk for tresspass and resisting arrest, I'd get the conviction. Entitled asshole.
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A UCLA police officer shocked a student with a stun gun at a campus library after he refused repeated requests to show student identification and wouldn't leave, police said.
The student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was shocked Tuesday at about 11 p.m. as police did a routine check of student IDs at the University of California, Los Angeles Powell Library computer lab.
"This is a long-standing library policy to ensure the safety of students during the late-night hours," said UCLA Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.
She said police tried to escort Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library after he refused to provide identification. Tabatabainejad instead encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, and when a crowd began to gather, police used the stun gun on him, Greenstein said.
Tabatabainejad was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer and later released on his own recognizance. He declined to comment Wednesday night.
The incident was recorded on another student's camera phone and showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab.
It was the third incident in a month in which police behavior in the city was criticized after amateur video surfaced. The other two involved the Los Angeles Police Department.
Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams promised an investigation.
"The safety of our campus community is of paramount importance to me," Abrams said in a statement.
Yeah, fine, the kids was in the wrong, but why tazer him over and over again? He won't get up? Fine drag him out the cop car.
It's not often a cop gets to use a tazer. You might as well have fun with it while the moment presents itself.
Stand UP.
STAND UP.
STAND UP!
STAND UP OR I AM GOING TO TASER YOU!
*bzzzt*
That's why. Get up motherfucker. Why should I have to drag your belligerent ass out of here when you have two good legs? Oh, that's right, there's no reason I should have to do that.
Stand up.
But a tazer? Aren't cops paid to drag out belligerant suspects?
Well I think the guy should've leave in the 1st place man (quickly as he was told)and nothing like this would have happened, secondly fine they arrest him... is not so great to resist an arrest... I think the guy has problems following instructions. lol
At least it was a tazer instead of a fist or gun ...right?
I tazer my auntie.
Well, that's what she gets for not bringing her ID when she vists your palatial estate and for refusing to leave when instructed.
At least she doesn't cry about abuse of power. Boo hoo.
AV, will you tazer me? I'd like that. Mmhm.
Here, just sign this consent form and this release of liability form. There, good.
Now, go stand in that puddle of water. Perfect.
***brztttttt***
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