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Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers (Commie Alert)
Daily Bruin ^ | November 15, 2006 | Lisa Connolly, Derek Lipkin and Saba Riazati,

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: campuscommies; campusradicals; tabatabainejad; ucla
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1 posted on 11/16/2006 4:57:59 AM PST by radar101
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To: radar101

>""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. "

Being that he is a Californian college grad still hanging around campus, I assume beheading American aid workers is fine with him through.


2 posted on 11/16/2006 5:21:25 AM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: radar101

..... is fine with him.


3 posted on 11/16/2006 5:22:10 AM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: radar101
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.

If he was leaving then they should have just let him go, sounds like petty tyrants at work here.
4 posted on 11/16/2006 5:24:36 AM PST by Husker24
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To: radar101

So how do you like that, Sparky?

Too bad they don't make a room-sized Taser to clear out some of the "I want your badge number" future welfare recipients.


5 posted on 11/16/2006 5:26:06 AM PST by Tenyaka
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Officer Tackleberry on the job!


6 posted on 11/16/2006 5:27:48 AM PST by LetsRok
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To: Husker24

If he was leaving then they should have just let him go, sounds like petty tyrants at work here.
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I sort of agree. The part that really suggested that was, here's a guy you shot with a taser on the floor, the cops want him to stand, and when he doesn't, they taser him again. But I'm sure that the general tenor of this thread will be like the poster of this article editorialized "he's a california college kid, therefore he's a communist." Yawn.


7 posted on 11/16/2006 5:32:37 AM PST by dmz
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To: Tenyaka
Sorry, but if I'm walking and anyone, badge or not, grabs me by the arm, they better make sure that they don't end up with that taser in a very uncomfortable spot.

Battery is battery, badge or not.

8 posted on 11/16/2006 5:33:50 AM PST by par4 (If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything)
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To: radar101

Fry 'em all.


9 posted on 11/16/2006 5:37:48 AM PST by Cap'n Crunch
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To: dmz

The kid obviously was anti-authoritarian. I lost track of how many times they tased him - did it never occur to the cops that he might not be able to stand and walk?

Mrs VS


10 posted on 11/16/2006 5:38:16 AM PST by VeritatisSplendor
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I agree, however the student had time to turn on the camera on his video phone. something smells fishy here. seems like once again we are getting half of a story


11 posted on 11/16/2006 5:40:27 AM PST by joe fonebone (Israel, taking out the world's trash since 1948.)
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To: par4

Well maybe the cops should have baked him a plate of muffins and set them outside the library. They probably didn't say "pretty please" enough times either.

Cop-hating Freepers crack me up.


12 posted on 11/16/2006 5:41:07 AM PST by L98Fiero (Terrorists, Communists and Liberals. All happy with a Democrat Congress)
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To: L98Fiero
Let's see, they asked him to leave and when they returned he was in the process of leaving so they grabbed him by the arm and he resisted. From the article, it sounds like cause and effect.

Cop-hating Freepers crack me up

I'm glad you're so easily entertained (that was sarcasm, in case you're easily confused too).

13 posted on 11/16/2006 5:57:18 AM PST by par4 (If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything)
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To: joe fonebone

I don't think it was the the Taz-ee's phone that was being used. It says 'a student's' not 'the student's'.

If I wanted to record something I was a bystander to - it would take 15-20 seconds from 'holster' to recording. However I'm not one of those people who feel they need to record every little thing. As seen on youtube for instance.. :)


14 posted on 11/16/2006 6:02:48 AM PST by PissAndVinegar
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To: PissAndVinegar

you are correct....my bad....still it appears that something is missing from this article


15 posted on 11/16/2006 6:05:38 AM PST by joe fonebone (Israel, taking out the world's trash since 1948.)
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To: L98Fiero
They probably didn't say "pretty please" enough times either.

I'll assume you're ignoring that the stated use for the Taser is for when you really want to shoot to kill but don't want to actually kill him? A college student on the ground doesn't quite qualify.

16 posted on 11/16/2006 6:06:56 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: VeritatisSplendor

I knew of few college students in my day, the mid to late 70's, who were not anti authoritarian. It seems like a right of passage.

But you know, you find the absolute worst kinds of people hanging out reading libraries. /sarc


17 posted on 11/16/2006 6:08:41 AM PST by dmz
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To: MindBender26
"Being that he is a Californian college grad still hanging around campus, I assume beheading American aid workers is fine with him through."

You ever hear of graduate students genius? How do you think people get PHD's?
18 posted on 11/16/2006 6:10:18 AM PST by monday
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To: L98Fiero

Cop-hating Freepers crack me up.
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LOL. Step off the deep end much? There is no cop hating post on the thread at all. A few of us have questioned the actions, thinking that perhaps the response was disproportionate.


19 posted on 11/16/2006 6:14:20 AM PST by dmz
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To: joe fonebone
"I agree, however the student had time to turn on the camera on his video phone."

You need to work on your reading comprehension skills. The camera phone video was from another student, not the one attacked by campus police.
20 posted on 11/16/2006 6:15:29 AM PST by monday
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