Posted on 11/16/2006 4:57:59 AM PST by radar101
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.
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 CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.
The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.
It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.
As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.
"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."
Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.
Oh, we've got CSO's and police officers in our high schools and middle schools. A few weeks ago one of our officers was attacked by several student gang members.
They have since threatened to kill the officer.
They don't have enough money for me to work in these schools, the inmates run the asylum.
If it we're up to me, the secular humanist schools would have to take care of their own problems. But they've pawned the responsibility off on police departments.
Schools refuse to discipline animals and are aghast when the police do. Liberal theology at it's finest.
"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.
I didn't realize that the Patriot Act required one to have their "Bruin Card" while using the library computers. ;)
You mean the leftist school newspaper wouldn't tell the whole story? I'm shocked and appalled.
Those police Nazi's, how dare they enforce school policy? How heinous. I'm sure Mommy and Daddy Tabatabainejad's lawyers will be in touch with the school.
I remember when some upstanding students had a riot at one of our high schools. One kid assaulted me and another officer. His punishment for rioting and assault on 2 police officers: write a letter of apology. I did not recieve, nor did I want some court ordered insincere letter of apology.
No wonder kids today have breakdowns when they enter the working world. They've been told that no one can lay a hand on them no matter how they conduct themselves.
DENNIS: Ah! NOW ... we see the violence inherent in the system.ARTHUR: Shut up!
PEOPLE (i.e. other PEASANTS): are appearing and watching
DENNIS:
(calling)
Come and see the violence inherent in the system.
Help, help, I'm being repressed!ARTHUR:
(aware that people are now coming out and watching)
Bloody peasant!
(pushes DENNIS over into mud and prepares to ride off)DENNIS: Oh, Did you hear that! What a give-away.
I can't figure it out. Reading between the lines of this story was like listening to Bill Clinton spin his relationship with 'that woman, Miss Lewinsky.'
Oh well, makes for good banter.
IT'S BUSH'S FAULT!!!! hahahahahaha
CAIR is already on the case.
I'm old enough to remember when kids were respectful to those in authority. ;-)
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.
But........But.....she turned me into a newt....well, i got better
hahaha... yeah, me too. In my years on the police dept. I've seen the change in the school system and in society.
Liberalism is ruining our society. No wonder half the country is stuck on stupid.
Heh, heh.
"BTW we don't have a "right" to be in university libraries."
We do if we pay tuition to said university.
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.
They could have beat him into submission, but then they'd get sued. They could have sprayed him with mace, but then that would have endangered everyone else who was standing around cheering this idiot on, or they could have tazed him a few times.
As far as I know it isn't a crime to forget your ID.
Refusing to obey the orders of a police officer, tresspassing, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest are crimes.
University police are the bottom of the barrel.
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We do if we pay tuition to said university."
Not a right, its a privledge. All based on you following the university rules.
It's funny that the leftists want a socialist/communistic society but they don't want the punishment that will come along with a socialist society.
Can you imagine what'd happen to them if they pulled a stunt like this in Russia, or China?
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