Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers (Commie Alert)

Daily Bruin ^ | November 15, 2006 | Lisa Connolly, Derek Lipkin and Saba Riazati,

[P-Marlowe]

The cop on the other hand violated the law by committing battery on the student.

Where do you get this crap? Are you some kind of first year law student or something?

[Velveeta]

I am keeping up, dearie.
If he can't prove that he had a "right" to be there since he refused to show his ID and wanted others to join his RESISTANCE, I'm glad they tasered him outta there.

[monday]

"No, when you pay for the university facilities it is contingent upon you following the rules. By your reasoning getting a passing grade is a right based on your paying tuition. "

Nonsense. Being fairly graded is as much of a right as using the library once tuition is paid.

"The kid violated the 'rights' and safety of all the OTHER students in the library.

How so?

"He lost his 'right' when he became disruptive and broke the law when he refused to leave."

Disruptive - 1. Causing disturbance to peace or order.

By that definition, he wasn't disruptive. Law enforcement was disruptive by grabbing him as he was leaving.

[SUSSA]

Please provide the statute that says a cop, or anyone else, can grab you as you are leaving a building you were told to leave. Cops have no more right to grab you than anyone else.

The student was doing what he was told to do. Grabbing him at that point was battery.

[Velveeta]

He refused to leave until he was tasered.
The cop committed battery? Oh, for goodness sakes.
What's the cop supposed to do?
Sit there all night asking him to "pretty please" leave and "pretty please" don't ask others to join your "resistance."

He asked for it, he got it.

[SUSSA]

So if someone was committing battery on you, you should be tasered for calling for help from the bystanders? That's a strange stance to take.

[driftdiver]

"So if someone was committing battery on you, you should be tasered for calling for help from the bystanders? That's a strange stance to take."

This wasn't Gandi staging a peaceful sit in. This was a loud obnoxious and distruptive guy who refused to leave when asked. He didn't leave until the backup got there and then continued to be disruptive.

He deserved to get his behind kicked.

[SUSSA]

Read the article. He was leaving like he was told to do when the cop who tasered him got there. He was leaving as instructed when he was grabbed by a UCPD cop. That's battery.

The student was doing what he was told. The UCPD cop committed a crime when he grabbed him.

[driftdiver]

"Disruptive - 1. Causing disturbance to peace or order.

By that definition, he wasn't disruptive. Law enforcement was disruptive by grabbing him as he was leaving."

He wasn't disruptive? What do you call all the shouting he did?

[Velveeta]

The student was doing what he was told to do.

Oh really? Was he told to incite others to join his "resistance".

Was he told to repeatedly refuse to produce his ID?

[Valpal1]

By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm

This wasn't in yesterday's news accounts. The story is morphing to portray LEO in the worst possible ways.

The library checks id's late at night to protect students from rape and robbery. If I was in charge, I'd just start closing the library at 9 pm and see how they like the results of student non compliance with safety measures.

Stupid marxist brats.

[TrogdortheBurninator]

It sounds like we in no way, shape, or form have the whole story, but only a slanted retelling. We have no idea what they were after him for. The UCPD are not called just to ask someone to leave the library. There are underlying factors not told here, that the reporter has no way of knowing.

[SUSSA]

He didn't leave until the backup got there and then continued to be disruptive.

Read the article. He was leaving like he was told to do when the cop who tasered him got there.

[P-Marlowe]

Please provide the statute that says a cop, or anyone else, can grab you as you are leaving a building you were told to leave. Cops have no more right to grab you than anyone else. The student was doing what he was told to do. Grabbing him at that point was battery.

Bullsnot.

Show me where a police officer does not have the right to grab your arm and escort you from a premesis upon which you are trespassing?

California Penal Code section 242: "A battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence upon the person of another."

Now tell me, are you a first year law student or just a naive anarchist?

[Velveeta]

That's ridiculous.
UCLAPD ask for ID.
He refuses.
He refuses again.
He continues to refuse.
UCLAPD asks him to leave.
He refuses.
He refuses more and calls others to his little insurgency.
His a$$ is tased and he goes crying to CAIR.

[SUSSA]

Was he told to incite others to join his "resistance".

You wouldn't "incite" the bystanders to help you if someone committed battery on you?

[DanTheAdmin]

Well, that's if you belive that's what happened - this article is written by UCLA students... Think about it.

[VeniVidiVici]

Crying about the Patriot Act while being a moron? He should have been tasered simply on grounds of the Darwin Act.

[monday]

"Which amendment in the Bill of Rights covers your 'Right' to uncontrolled and unfettered use of public property?"

I didn't say I had the right to "uncontrolled and unfettered use". I said I had a "right" to use them. If I pay for something I have a "right" to use it, it isn't a "privilege". It is a right. That doesn't mean I may use them as I wish.

Are you suggesting I have no "right" to use public property?

When you say I have no "right" to use university libraries even though I pay tuition to the university, it is like saying I have no right to drive my car even though I have paid for it. True, I have to obey the law in using both, but I have an absolute "right" to the use of both because I paid for that "right".

[TrogdortheBurninator]

"he's a California college kid, therefore he's a communist." You have a point, that Californian's are usually just pegged as left wing radicals, so some here at this forum might tend to dismiss this act as deserved because they don't believe in his political views. While it's wrong to think that he deserves this because he's a commie, it's not wrong to assume that he is, because he does go to UCLA. The strait edged, Conservatives are few and far between there.