[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs"]UCLA cops taser ID-less student[/YOUTUBE]

A little excessive??


UCLA cops taser ID-less student | The Register

When the cop says get up, then get up. Simple. No sympathy from me for the punk. Since they are students, I hope they all learned that when a cop says to stand up, you better well stand up. The guy didn't have a card, he could not prove he belonged there, the cops told him to get out and he resisted. He got what he deserved.

The kid was resisting arrest..I do think he deserved the taser for not cooperating...but they should have dragged him out if there if there was more than one cop, instead of continuing to tase him.

"deserved"?
It isn't the cops place to figure out what kind of physical abuse that a suspect should experience because they think he "deserved" something.

And what the heck was he being "arrested" for?
And these were the UCPD. Campus cops.
What authority do they have to "arrest" anybody?

All the article said was they were going to escort him from the building. That's it.

Police violence should only be used as a last resort when the situation requires it. As a defense mechanism.
Not as a convenient tool. Not as a means to coerce somebody. Not as a first option.


In addition, another stupid part to me is how they told him to "stand up" AS THEY WERE TASERING HIM.
Make him lose all muscular control, and insist that he stand up.
Mind-numbingly stupid...

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SAN FRANCISCO - Few if any controls are imposed on police using Taser stun guns to subdue suspects, which could explain the rise in Taser-related deaths throughout the region, according to a new study released today by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

"The lack of regulation of Tasers is very disturbing in light of the increasing number of deaths associated with their use," said Mark Schlosberg, the ACLU of Northern California's Police Practices Policy Director. "We fear that in the absence of strong regulations on how police use the weapon, we are likely to see more unnecessary deaths."

In an exhaustive survey of Taser policies and training materials in more than 50 police departments across central and northern California, the ACLU found that while stun gun-related deaths have risen dramatically, the weapon remains largely unregulated. Tasers work by firing twin metal barbs that emit a 50,000-volt charge into an individual, causing him to collapse from loss of muscular control.

Since 1999, at least 148 people in the United States and Canada have died after encounters with police who shocked them with Tasers. More than half of those deaths occurred in the past year, of which 15 took place in northern and central California.
American Civil Liberties Union : Unregulated Use of Taser Stun Guns Threatens Lives, ACLU of Northern California Study Finds

On the lighter side of things....

YouTube - how to not get ur ass kicked by the police

YouTube - crazy cop!!!

Holy cow!

What the video does NOT show is what this kid did to get the attention of the cops - in the first place.

I spent countless hundreds (perhaps thousands) of hours in college libraries and NEVER ONCE HAD ANY ALTERCATION WITH SECURITY OR POLICE. Not once.

Personally, I think "tasering" him was more humane than the old fashioned way - which was to pull out the old night stick and give a guy a couple whacks upside the head.


I also think this whole thing could very well have been some sort of set-up.

That's pretty danged funny!

Obey the law. Do what the cop says. That about sums it up.

Here is the student's name: Mostafa Tabatabainejad

The entire thing was a set up to gain sympathy for muslims. They're experts at manipulating the media and playing the victim.