Posted on 11/16/2006 4:57:59 AM PST by radar101
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.
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.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.
"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."
Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.
1. Your BruinCard, dont leave home without it.
2. tasers rule, I gotta get me one.
He didn't refuse to leave. He was leaving when he was assaulted. Even the cops don't claim he was trespassing.
Quite frequently, campus security is performed by Administration of Justice students. They take classes in, for instance, Evidence, Reading of Rights, Ticketing for Parking Violations, and Directing Traffic at College Sporting Events. This is probably part of an assignment for their Subduing a Suspect course, where they have to go out and actually taser a real perp in the commission of a crime to earn a passing grade.
Bad manners are not a crime. Nor are bad manners punishable by battery. Until the cops committed battery no crime had been committed.
Do you beleive everything you read, or just that which suits your angenda?
Did you watch the video? They must have told him to stand up a dozen times and he refused. Each refusal is a new misdemeanor.
Obviously since no less than a half dozen cops were there by the time he got tazed, he was not cooperating. He was resisting.
Are you a first year law student or an anarchist?
I think the cops should have used their glocks after the first command was not followed. That way, there is no time for cell phone videos or crowd's to gather. That would also minimize "copy cat" offenders...
Did you watch the video at all?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs
Let me give you a recap:
Bad, bad cops: "Stand up"
Fine upstanding student without ID: "F$ck off"
Bad, bad Cops:"Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand, up, stand up, stand up...(continues for several minutes)...or you'll get tased.
Fine upstanding student without ID: "Here's you're F'n Patriot Act. F$ck off"
Bad, bad, Cops: "Stand up, stan up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up"
Fine upstanding student without ID: "OW!"
Zotted, but good.
He did refuse to leave. Or do you think the CSO called UCPD for nothing and made it all up? How long do you think it takes UCPD to respond? 2 minutes, 10 minutes? Why was he still there when UCPD arrived?
Do you know what, when the CSO asked for his ID, all he had to do was say "Yes sir, I seem to have forgotten my ID, let me save my work and I'll be out of here". Politeness and following VALID requests for compliance to REASONABLE rules is a winning social strategy.
So many young people seem to think that resisting authority is equal to resisting tyranny and they haven't a clue.
He was leaving before the cops got there. When they came on the scene he was leaving as instructed. Had they let him leave there would be no story.
Once they committed battery they were the criminals. You keep ignoring those facts.
Do you believe everything every cop says?
If you read the other articles linked to, you will find that the taser was in drive or stune mode, not full mode. He would have been able to comply with the order to stand and not been physically incapacitated.
Thanks for the link!
If we make bad manners a crime, everyone will be a criminal.
In any event,bad manners do not excuse the criminal acts by the cops or make them legal.
At what point did they commit a battery? Did you read the penal code statute?
Are you a law student?
Please answer the question.
Where did you get your legal training? Did you get a law degree out of a box of cracker jacks?
another set up.
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