Roger that. I want one of those cell phones!
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
As in most videos of police actions though we do not see what prompted the police appearance. I am sure we will hear more about this, but bottom line is, if you do what you are told you usually do not get hurt.
Smart-mouthed kids gets zapped.
Cops may have overused the zapper, by one or two. Can't really tell.
Punk kid deserved most of it.
Could not have happened to a more deserving guy.....
It's a pretty simple formula really. When the cops tell you to do something...you do it. It just simplifies everything for everybody. And helps you avoid getting tazed/beaten/shot. Which this screaming brat clearly deserved.
SIR!!! YES SIR!!!!
Zotted in a library by rent a cops for refusing to provide ID??? Give me a break, there better be MUCH more to this story, or this guy deserves to own that campus. If his name was not Tabawhatevah, but "Kingsfield Cromwell IV" or some such, would you think any differently?
Civil rights are a luxury available only to those who comply in the face of the cover of uniform.
This video should be required viewing for all high school graduates headed to a post secondary, educational facility.
Two comments:
1) The bystanders are 6-year-olds in 20-year-old bodies
2) The person taking the video is an imbecile
ucla sucks - trust me.
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're wrong on a single count...
Student says "Here's your patriot act"... Admission of guilt...
I saw this vid a bit earlier today, after getting an email from the Politech listserv. The email said the kid was 'quietly studying.' Ok, and the police come in and taser and drag your ass away because you are quietly studying. Right. I wonder what else he was up to?
I'm a grad student, previously practiced law, and have worked in a law library. I have spent a good part of my life in academic libraries. I have yet to see the cops come up and drag someone out of their carrel for 'studying while muslim' or anything else.
Agree. Police telling him "Get Up" over and over. Why not just pick him up or handcuff him then pick him up. Does not look like appropriate use of a Taser to me. Tasers are used to stop someone with a knife or other weapon, not to make someone "get up".
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1739283/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1739527/posts?page=1,50
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.
After the 37th "Stand Up" I quit the video. As others have said, obey the police and you won't have a problem. Resist them and you are going to be in a world of hurt.
Roger that. I want one of those cell phones!
1) The bystanders are 6-year-olds in 20-year-old bodies
2) The person taking the video is an imbecile
Nailed it right on the head.
If the guy is not authorized to be in the library, he is trespassing. The school has a right to have him removed. He failed to produce ID showing that he was not trespassing. The police asked him to move, he didn't. He paid the consequences and squealed like a girl.
He got what he deserved.
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