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.
Where do you get this crap? Are you some kind of first year law student or something?
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
"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?
Oh really? Was he told to incite others to join his "resistance".
Was he told to repeatedly refuse to produce his ID?
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.
Read the article. He was leaving like he was told to do when the cop who tasered him got there.
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?
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.
You wouldn't "incite" the bystanders to help you if someone committed battery on you?
Well, that's if you belive that's what happened - this article is written by UCLA students... Think about it.
Crying about the Patriot Act while being a moron? He should have been tasered simply on grounds of the Darwin Act.
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