Posted on 11/16/2006 8:23:50 PM PST by Arec Barrwin
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, was tasered after he refused to provide ID and would not leave. He starts screaming
"DON"T TOUCH ME! Don't touch-zzzzzzzzzzzt!" "Here's your Patriot Act! Here's your-zzzzzzzzzzt!"
Lesson #1: When the police ask you to do something, do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E
"Right...another student just happened to have a video camera on him or her? They really weren't expecting to have anything to video. Just a coincidence. Smells like a setup to me. "
You might be right, but it could have been just some other student with a video cell phone . I don't know if there is a phone that can shoot almost 7 minutes of video, though. I can only get about a minute and a half out of mine.
Sorry, I think that its funny as hell.
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Yeah I watched it twice and it was just as hilarious.
ROTFLMAO
So you know this how? Since you and I happened not to have been there, you have possibly justified ONE shock. How exactly do you justify the rest of the shocks and the rest of their actions, including the rare feat of almost provoking a riot in a LIBRARY?
What to bet their supervisor and the university police are please with their efforts in that library?
That depends entirely on the memory card -- if you replace the minimal one that usually comes with the phone and put in a 1 GB or so, you should be able to get quite a bit on there.
CAIR-LA CALLS FOR PROBE OF UCLA TASER INCIDENT
Student given multiple stun gun shocks by campus police
(ANAHEIM, CA, 11/16/06) - The Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called for an independent investigation of an incident late Tuesday in which a student at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) was given multiple “Taser” stun gun shocks by campus police.
CAIR-LA was contacted by several UCLA students who expressed their concern about possible civil rights violations by police officers.
The incident began when the student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was asked to leave a computer lab after he failed to produce a student ID during a random check. The entire incident was captured on video by another student. While being stunned, Tabatabainejad informed the officers he had a medical condition.
(I smell setup. More===>http://theamericanmuslim.org/tam.)php/features/articles/call_for_probe_of_ucla_muslim_student_taser_incident/
not-a-ping
And I could care less that the kid was probably a punk and mouthy. Neither are against the law.
Lighten up mon frere. He did break the law. He was trespassing. He didn't get tased before he started screaming (LMAO)"don't touch me!", then "i have a medical condition!"(ROTFl). Then he resisted arrest.
Listen to the video without watching it and you'll hear all the abuse (m-f) which is assault in some places--but then you'd miss the priceless third tase (legs kicking up).
I have a feeling this is going to be looping on my box for a while.
It's against federal law for anyone other than a sworn law enfrocement officer to operate a taser. The kid was defying police officers, not "rent a cops."
From the Daly Bruin:
"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 person could not/would not produce an ID. He was therefore, trespassing and the police asked him to leave. He refused. He got tazed.
It's UCLA. So yeah, someone might very well have a video camera with them at all times. Not to mention cel phone video recording.
The kid was wrong not to leave when asked, but I dunno about all the tasing.
Seems to be justified, the youngster had a weapon of mass delusion.
"Seems to be justified, the youngster had a weapon of mass delusion"
He traded it in for a mass of electrocution.
"Some of the STUPIDEST cops I have ever seen. They are also of course CHICKENS.
Had they tried this in a poor neighborhood in LA they would have had a full scale riot on their hands and their butts kicked. So this is what we have come to, bullies cannot get away with bullying poor people as much so they join college police departments and bully respectable people who will not riot. And they came close to having a riot among college kids in the library.
And I could care less that the kid was probably a punk and mouthy. Neither are against the law."
You have my pity.
How many times should a cop have to say, "Stand up" before the fool has to either comply or be zapped?
The fool was trying to be a martyr...he was just a fool.
No, the kid was tasered for refusing to leave the library. I am sure there was some back and forth that went on before the kid was tasered.
Who cares about this anyway? I don't get what the big deal is. The kid defied the authorities and he got tasered. It may have been an over reaction by the campus police, but maybe not. We don't have enough information to make any judgement.
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