Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers (Commie Alert)

Daily Bruin ^ | November 15, 2006 | Lisa Connolly, Derek Lipkin and Saba Riazati,

[isom35]

1. Your BruinCard, dont leave home without it.

2. tasers rule, I gotta get me one.

[SUSSA]

He didn't refuse to leave. He was leaving when he was assaulted. Even the cops don't claim he was trespassing.

[webheart]

I am curious as to why they tazored him for not standing up.

Quite frequently, campus security is performed by Administration of Justice students. They take classes in, for instance, Evidence, Reading of Rights, Ticketing for Parking Violations, and Directing Traffic at College Sporting Events. This is probably part of an assignment for their Subduing a Suspect course, where they have to go out and actually taser a real perp in the commission of a crime to earn a passing grade.

[monday]

"What the hell is wrong with you people? The man was engaged in criminal behavior and you guys would tie the hands of the police to enforce the laws and and then punish those people who were simply doing their job to the best of their ability."

Do you know what tasering does to the nervous system? It's stupid of the LEOs to taser someone and then expect them to stand up. Someone who as just been tasered can't stand up, but that is exactly what the LEOs expected him to do, and since he could not stand, they tasered him again. You think thats reasonable?

"I am frankly ashamed that some of these opinions are here on free republic. They seem to be so much more in tune with those at Democrat Underground."

I am too. They seem to be more in tune with those of the Nazi party.

[SUSSA]

Bad manners are not a crime. Nor are bad manners punishable by battery. Until the cops committed battery no crime had been committed.

[DanTheAdmin]

Do you beleive everything you read, or just that which suits your angenda?

[P-Marlowe]

He didn't refuse to leave. He was leaving when he was assaulted. Even the cops don't claim he was trespassing.

Did you watch the video? They must have told him to stand up a dozen times and he refused. Each refusal is a new misdemeanor.

Obviously since no less than a half dozen cops were there by the time he got tazed, he was not cooperating. He was resisting.

Are you a first year law student or an anarchist?

[Citizen4Right]

I think the cops should have used their glocks after the first command was not followed. That way, there is no time for cell phone videos or crowd's to gather. That would also minimize "copy cat" offenders...

[Velveeta]

Did you watch the video at all?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs

Let me give you a recap:

Bad, bad cops: "Stand up"

Fine upstanding student without ID: "F$ck off"

Bad, bad Cops:"Stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand, up, stand up, stand up...(continues for several minutes)...or you'll get tased.

Fine upstanding student without ID: "Here's you're F'n Patriot Act. F$ck off"

Bad, bad, Cops: "Stand up, stan up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up, stand up"

Fine upstanding student without ID: "OW!"

Zotted, but good.

[SUSSA]

I don't believe everything the media prints. Nor do I believe every cop always tells the truth.

In this case, I think they over reacted and are covering their butts. I have no doubt that the student was ill-mannered, but that doesn't mean the cops should commit battery on him.

[monday]

"Did you watch the video? They must have told him to stand up a dozen times and he refused. Each refusal is a new misdemeanor. "

lol, I'd like to see you stand up after you have been tased. Thats like convicting someone of failure to breath after they have drowned.

[Valpal1]

He did refuse to leave. Or do you think the CSO called UCPD for nothing and made it all up? How long do you think it takes UCPD to respond? 2 minutes, 10 minutes? Why was he still there when UCPD arrived?

Do you know what, when the CSO asked for his ID, all he had to do was say "Yes sir, I seem to have forgotten my ID, let me save my work and I'll be out of here". Politeness and following VALID requests for compliance to REASONABLE rules is a winning social strategy.

So many young people seem to think that resisting authority is equal to resisting tyranny and they haven't a clue.

[SUSSA]

He was leaving before the cops got there. When they came on the scene he was leaving as instructed. Had they let him leave there would be no story.

Once they committed battery they were the criminals. You keep ignoring those facts.

[SUSSA]

Do you believe everything every cop says?

[Valpal1]

If you read the other articles linked to, you will find that the taser was in drive or stune mode, not full mode. He would have been able to comply with the order to stand and not been physically incapacitated.

[Volunteer]

Taser video is always funny.

Thanks for the link!

[SUSSA]

If we make bad manners a crime, everyone will be a criminal.

In any event,bad manners do not excuse the criminal acts by the cops or make them legal.

[monday]

"So many young people seem to think that resisting authority is equal to resisting tyranny and they haven't a clue."

Thats not why he did it. He is a Muslim and he hates America. He set a trap for the UCP and they were stupid enough to fall in. He knows that when LEOs assault people like him unreasonably, as they did in this case, it undermines the Patriot Act.

He is our enemy but as long as we don't have the b@lls to deport Muslims like him they will continue to undermine us by using our freedoms against us.

In a Muslim country an incident like this wouldn't even be noticed, but in the US we expect our LEOs to respect basic human rights. When they don't, as in this case, it weakens laws designed to protect us. This kid knew that, and was hoping for just the sort of brutality that the UCP gave him. He is evil but the UCP is criminally stupid.

[P-Marlowe]

Once they committed battery they were the criminals.

At what point did they commit a battery? Did you read the penal code statute?

Are you a law student?

Please answer the question.

Where did you get your legal training? Did you get a law degree out of a box of cracker jacks?

[BurbankKarl]

another set up.