UCLA Student Tasered in Library...wow.

[BrewCityBuck]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>1) Student didn't have ID2) Cops told him to leave3) Student gets up and starts to leave4) Cops hold him back and prevent him from leaving5) Student tells cops to let go of him6) Cops taser him multiple times7) Witnessing students ask cops for their names and badge numbers8) Cops threaten to taser them</div><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>"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."Did not leave immediatley. Pretty simple stuff. And undoubteldy a biased report, at that. Video shows the guy continually refusing to stand on his feet. So, he disobeyed the cops multiple times. Under the law, perfectly acceptable to taser the guy.</div>

 

[valo35]

Those cops are completely out of line in my view, I dont know much about police rules or anything, but if they tasered him to the floor they should be the ones to help him up. They should not tell him to get up, and then taser him for not doing it, because I wouldn't get up after being tasered either. I can't hear to well, I don't know how the thing started, and why he was tasered. The guy claims he was just leaving, but we didn't see that far back so I wouldn't know why.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (valo35 @ Nov 17 2006, 09:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Those cops are completely out of line in my view, I dont know much about police rules or anything, but if they tasered him from the floor they should be the ones to help him up. They should not tell him to get up, and then taser him for not doing it, because I wouldn't get up after being tasered either. I can't hear to well, I don't know how the thing started, and why he was tasered. The guy claims he was just leaving, but we didn't see that far back so I wouldn't know why.</div> He was making some big political statement in one of UCLA's libraries and was causing a disturbance...librarians calls the campus police and the guy was a complete moron and didn't obey the police's orders.

 

[valo35]

He wasn't obeying police orders, but it's hard to get up without some help, after being tasered. If they wanted him to get up, they should have picked him up off the floor.

 

[KCX]

WTF. They need to just pick him up and force him away.. dont taser the f*cking guy. That guy is also retarded, STAND UP when they ask you to.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

In my opinion, the guy was a complete dink. But the officers were probably out of line. The video was short and didn't show everything but after one tasering the police would have been better off just dragging him outside and not causing a big disturbance in the library. I feel the repeated tasering was out of line in that situation because the guy was not a serious threat and he was under basic control.

 

[valo35]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Nov 17 2006, 08:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>In my opinion, the guy was a complete dink. But the officers were probably out of line. The video was short and didn't show everything but after one tasering the police would have been better off just dragging him outside and not causing a big disturbance in the library. I feel the repeated tasering was out of line in that situation because the guy was not a serious threat and he was under basic control.</div>I was thinking the same way, just couldn't word it the way you just worded it. After they tasered him that first time, I felt they didn't have to continue to taser him a few times.

 

[ASUFan22]

Police were out of line. He wasn't a threat at all. Seems like they just did it for fun the last couple times. Someone needs to be fired.

 

[ReppinTheD]

You can't stand up when you're bring tasered - even after you get tasered it doesn't wear off for like a certain amount of time. (not that long, maybe like 30 seconds or so)This was out of line, BCB, and you know it.

 

[Mobruler]

If I were a cop with a taser gun, I'd be looking for any reason at all to zap the sh*t out of someone.

 

[SirLaker]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Nov 17 2006, 05:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>In my opinion, the guy was a complete dink. But the officers were probably out of line. The video was short and didn't show everything but after one tasering the police would have been better off just dragging him outside and not causing a big disturbance in the library. I feel the repeated tasering was out of line in that situation because the guy was not a serious threat and he was under basic control.</div>I agree with you.

 

[Mobruler]

"Here's your f*cking Patriot Act" AHAHA!

 

[kingjamez]

There was a guy tasered at a football game, and he fell off the balcony in the stands, he was taken to a hospital, and then arrested..

 

[CelticBalla32]

Watch the WHOLE thing. It gets even more F*cked up as it goes along.

Apparently this is a UCLA student that did not have his ID on him. Police officers tasered him, which from my calculations is only applicable if the person is threatening. All this kid did was tell them to stop touching him.

Then, as he is on the ground friggen screaming and in pain/shock from getting tasered, they yell at him to get up a billion times. Doesn't a taser disable you for a short period of time? Then they keep doing it, and doing it, and doing it!!!

All the kids are yelling at these dicks to stop. And listen closely towards the end, a cop threatens a kid (who was doing nothing but questioning the incodent and telling them it was wrong) that he would taser him too if he doesn't get back into the classroom. How the F*ck can they get away with this? Honestly...

 

[BALLAHOLLIC]

Topics merged.

 

[Clangus]

I didnt see f all on that tape. I think everyone is getting carried away. If the footage was clear fair enough, but it is sh*t. Cops may have been out of line, but that footage wont get them in trouble. Is everyone getting carried away by the story without looking? Weird.

 

[Drake24]

I just think that it is stupid that when the other students ask the cops to find who they are, they threaten to taser them.

 

[Fouled Out]

The cops were idiots, they decided to to get involved in a situation in which they weren't necessary. They were called to escort the student out of the building because he was refusing to leave. When they arrived, the student was on his way out. The cops should have just made sure he left the premises, and let the story end there. Instead they tried to get involved, got a little bit trigger-happy, and now should be thrown back into the job market as soon as possible. On the other hand, good thing they are UCPD and not LAPD, or dude would have been shot in the f*cking face.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

I had my Juvenile Law teacher play this at the end of class yeterday...He said the police had basic control of him and he didn't pose a threat and they should have just taken him outside...he said the multiple tasing was probably out of line but he said the video was bad so he couldn't fully judge it.