Originally Posted by ucbruin

FYI: University of California Police is a state police agency, with full arrest and law enforcement powers throughout the State of California.

"Police officers of the UCLA Police Department are duly sworn peace officers under section 830.2(b) of the California Penal Code. The officers of the department are armed and possess the same authority under the law as municipal police officers."

For the record, Tabatabainejad, was tased not because he didn't show his BruinCard the on duty student security, that only facilitated the response from of the police. Rather, Tabatabainejad was tased because when asked to leave, he was non-compliant and then when was escorted out, began to resist by struggling with officers... etc etc.

When you resist arrest (148PC), the outcome will not be pleasant. It doesn't matter what you did before hand, it's the resistance and delay that warrants use of force to facilitate the arrest in a safe and efficiant manner.