"When the student told him to let go the cops brutalized him. "
He resisted arrest. That arrest may have been a mistake but it doesn't change the fact he resisted.
BTW we don't have a "right" to be in university libraries.
The student was leaving like he was told to do. The UCPD cop grabbed him as he was leaving. The cop didn’t just approach him, he grabbed him. That was battery.
The student didn’t break any law by being in the library. At worst he broke a school rule.
Nothing in the article says the cop placed him under arrest before grabbing him. You made that up.
At the point the cop grabbed the student as he was trying to follow the instructions of the guy who told him to leave; the cop became the first person to break the law. Cops have no more right to break the law than anyone else.
We are a nation of laws. The cops should be prosecuted.
"BTW we don't have a "right" to be in university libraries."
We do if we pay tuition to said university.
He resisted arrest. That arrest may have been a mistake but it doesn't change the fact he resisted.
You said it all. Don't resist when authorities try to stop you and don't give lip to those trying to do their jobs. This so called student's (although he was unable to prove it) behavior is so typical of the mindset that one must resist all authority and one must never cooperate with authority. I hope this jerk learned a lesson.