UCLA 'taser' scandal, caught on videotape
An Iranian-American student at UCLA was tasered on Tuesday by campus police for failing to provide proper identification during a random security check at the school library.
The shocking incident was caught on videotape and has created quite quite a controversy in the Westwood campus.
Police tasered the student even after he was handcuffed and posed no threat to anyone. According to a study published in the Lancet Medical Journal in 2001, a charge of three to five seconds can result in immobilization for five to 15 minutes, which would mean that Tabatabainejad could have been physically unable to stand when the officers demanded that he do so. Read the article from the UCLA school paper.
Friday, November 17, 2006 | Permalink
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7 Comments:
Combative. Deserved it.
BULLSHIT! The clearly used excessive force.
Shocking!!
What the hell is everyone just standing there not doing anything for!!?
How sad, the mecca of freedom tuning to just another police state!
Hey:
Can you post a link on your blog to this online petition to ban the use of taser guns by UCPD + have a transparent and independent investigation of the UCLA tasering?
Here's the link:
To read and sign petition, go to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stoptasersUCPD/
On Tuesday, Nov. 11, several UCPD officers arrested, handcuffed, and repeatedly electrocuted a UCLA student with a taser gun in a UCLA library because he did not show police officers his UCLA ID card and refused to leave the library.
For a video of the incident, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE
The incident shocked those who witnessed the abuse (as can be clearly seen in the video) and those who have seen the video. What happened to this student clearly shows how taser guns lend themselves to police abuse.
Taser guns are dangerous and cruel. Up until this day, over 189 people in the US have died as a result of being shot with a taser gun. In addition, taser guns cause great pain and muscular paralysis on those shot.
Imagine if UC police stopped and tasered every student who forgot to carry around their UC id!
If you are outraged about this incident and would like to do something to improve our UC communities, you can start by signing this petition addressed to UC President Robert Dynes, the UC Regents, and the UC chancellors asking the university administration to do the following:
1. Permanently ban the use of taser guns by the University of California Police Department.
2. Form an independent review board that will investigate the tasering of UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad at Powell Library on Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
3. This independent review board should also review and recommend changes to policies regarding verification of student status by UCPD officers.
4. Consider setting independent review boards in every UC campus with the assigned role of independently investigating serious allegations of police abuse.
5. Extend a formal apology to UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad for the physical and emotional harm done to him that evening.
Please join us in supporting these demands by:
1) Signing the online petition.
Again, to read and sign petition, go to: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stoptasersUCPD/
2) Forwarding this email to as many people in the UC community as you can.
Thank you for joining our call. Together, we can make our UC campuses safer and more peaceful communties.
Want to know much a taser would hurt? CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO OF A BULL GETTING SHOT WITH A TASER... IT WILL SHOCK YOU. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ll5KnoQkk
Don't want to get tased? Don't fuck with the person holding the taser. Simple as that. If he wasn't trying to be mr. opressed innocent bystander man, he would have shown his freakin ID the FIRST time he was asked for it. Not hung out where where he was told to leave. In addition, the video is BS. You see nothing, and only hear the end. I'm sure he was just reading a book quietly in the corner when the evil gestapo attacked. Bullshit.
The regretful thing is that there are no winners here. Both sides lost. Only Osama bin Laden has won — he has changed our country and its people for the worse. Didn’t anyone notice that all that Taser-ing still didn’t make Mostafa stand up? That is what all governments now fear — a person capable of independent thought and willing to endure pain rather than submit.
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