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In this case it is obvious that this guy was refusing to leave, at that point he became a tresspasser. The officer then called for back up, and when all of the officers asked him to leave and he refused, then the police then called the idiot's hand.

You can make up a story that fits your agenda, but it has nothing to do with the case being discussed here. The article clearly states the student was leaving. He wasn’t leaving fast enough to satisfy the CSO. He didn't refuse to leave as in your fictional story. He was leaving as instructed when he was grabbed by a UCPD cop.

The student wasn’t committing any crime. At worst he violated a school rule. There is a difference between violating a rule and violating a law.

The cop on the other hand violated the law by committing battery on the student. When the student objected to the crime he was brutalized by that cop and another one.

Either we are a nation of laws or we are not. If we allow cops to break the law with immunity we are no longer a nation of laws. Cops should be prosecuted when they break the law just like everyone else.

There's more to the story:

The student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was shocked Tuesday at about 11 p.m. as police did a routine check of student IDs at the University of California, Los Angeles Powell Library computer lab.

A UCLA police officer shocked a student with a stun gun at a campus library after he refused repeated requests to show student identification and wouldn't leave, police said.

She said police tried to escort Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library after he refused to provide identification. Tabatabainejad instead encouraged others at the library to join his resistance.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4767414