Holy SHIT. UCLA students tazer'd by police for not showing ID -- VIDEO INCLUDED

http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38958

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[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers.
Incident occured around 11:30 p.m. in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab

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..

HERE IS THE YOUTUBE VIDEO

HOLY SHIT.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This is why I hate cops.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Ya, that's stupid. Horrid abuse of power, but this line: "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," kind of makes me glad he got tasered. Ten gets you twenty that this fucker was wearing a Che shirt.

To be fair, he was being tazered fo no reason. That's enough to make anyone pretty fucking angry.

Double Post:
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_319101652.html

More information here.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960

More information about this.

Originally Posted by Chie

*tazer*
Get up
*tazer*
stop struggling
*tazer*
He's not getting up
Tazer him again. . . .

I love how someone asked for their information

I want your badge number
come any closer and i'll tazer o-o

According to the article above, that's ILLEGAL. There better be some fucking investigations or some shit.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Yes, because AMERICAN cops make people disappear from their houses over night and they're never seen alive again. AMERICAN cops are the physical threat behind a political wing that serves only as a private murder corps. Jesus, Iwata, you're exaggerating just a little there. Some American cities have a reputation for police brutality, but nothing that can compare to countries you're currently very close to, mate.

Yeah, keep in mind, this is in LA. Rodney King hello.

Edit: Also, lol China. It's actually possible to abduct someone in the middle of the night like that in the US if you do enough paperwork. It's a shit load of paperwork though.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

SERIOUSLY

Guys, I think you're overlooking one crucial point here. This is LOS ANGELES. People here in California are savages but in Los Angeles they're cannibals. UCLA may be a "prestigious" university but that doesn't mean that the students don't know how to properly initiate violence at the drop of a hat. Trust me on this. If the police took action on the guy there's a good chance that it's one of the pricks I've run into on my numerous visits to the campus who are a little too militant for their own good.

I'll say it again. Rodney King.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Encephalon

Japan, buddy. They don't need to kidnap you in the middle of the night in China since their capital punishment policy gives the law enforcement pretty much supreme authority.

Notice how Deni said countries "close to you". gb2/reading/

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by The Dopefish

I got laid and told people about it. The end.

That's a hilarious story! No one EVER does that.

Actually, nobody does. That shit is stupid and petty and nobody honestly cares.

Originally Posted by Devoxy

To be honest I wish the cops would tazer more UCLA students. But I guess me and Enceph (and a few others) only know what it's like to interact with So-Cal/UCLA uni students.

Oh god, so many of the assholes from my High School go to USC, it's not even funny.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

You've never experienced police brutality in China.

You've experience police brutality in America.

Therefore, police are more brutal in America.

QED.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Iwata

Although the U.S prison system currently is over-packed and funding is sparse. if the U.S had to take on extra 1 billion citizens, all the 3,370 inmates on death row currently, wouldn't be alive for more then two days.

China may not have 90% of the world population, yet they are the largest country in the world by 200,000 million people with 1.3 billion citizens unlike the U.S's tiny population of 300 million.

Now lets take a look at the number of incarcerated prisoners within each country.

US - 1,962,220 criminals
China - 1,428,126 criminals

If the U.S had to take on an extra billion citizens, it is easy to gurantee that the capital punishment would reach the current numbers that china are showing, if not higher.

Those numbers are irrelvant to the discussion of capital punishment. Not everyone in prison gets executed. The US justice system has far, far too many people, and we have one of the largets prison popluations in the world.. Boo fucking hoo.

That still doesn't have anything to do with capital punishment.

There's nowhere I can't reach.