Maybe they should of asked him for his ID three times!
Posted on 11/15/2006 3:59:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES
A camera phone captured a UCLA student being shot with a stun gun by a police officer after he allegedly refused repeated requests to show his student identification and would not leave a campus library, university police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Tuesday after police did a routine check of student ID at the 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 Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library after he refused to provide ID and would not leave.
Tabatabainejad, who was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer, was later released on his own recognizance.
"As the officers attempted to escort him out, he went limp and continued to refuse to cooperate with officers or leave the building," Greenstein said.
Instead, Greenstein encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, police said. When a crowd began to gather they used the stun gun on him.
The arrest was captured on another student's camera phone and showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. The video also showed the student shouting, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your ... abuse of power," according to the campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin.
There is no phone listing for Tabatabainejad and neither he nor his attorney could be located for comment.
things that make ya go hmmmmmm?
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23
Powell Library computer lab
"Here's your Patriot Act, here's your ... abuse of power,"
I hope they have smurf-off control on them computers in that computer lab
Mostafa....haha !
And all they did is escort him out?? WTH??
This Mostafa is an actual student. One of his papers http://webpages.charter.net/georgebbruin/mostafa
You can be sure Mostafa is going to give the school problems.
That's why I dumped it in chat for now..
it may well be a developing,, seems too 'innocent' tho, not likely staged but that was a snappy retort to make as a statement.. we'll see.
I , for one, would be curious as to what kind of stuff he was up to on the computers in the lab... but that's just me. :-)
Instead, Greenstein encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, police said. When a crowd began to gather they used the stun gun on him.
What's up with that?
typo
Mostafa Tabatabainejad
I see.
Maybe they should of asked him for his ID three times!
ping
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
"Tabatabainejad, who was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer, was later released on his own recognizance."
Nice catch; he basically tried to shift blame from the Turkish Moslems to the American consulate.
I figured that, nice proof reading job.
Lawyers Try to Stop Gitmo Med Procedure ~ Paracha has acknowledged meeting Osama bin Laden twice....
sarcasm
Certainly seems consistent with his level of intelligent seriousness.
/sarcasm
Here's video footage of it from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_M8s0GFEc
A student caught this with his video camera. I don't agree with these police tactics whatsoever. They basically tortured the guy with a taser when these so-called "men" could have easily dragged him out of the building.
Those crazy college kids !
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