UCLA Student "Shocks" Onlookers at the Campus Library
Has anyone seen the video of the UCLA student getting zapped 5 times with a taser by the police. Apparently the guy didn't have an ID and was at the library. Campus policy is that after 1130pm you must have a valid campus ID in order to be in the library. The guy came in and refused to show ID to the librarian who in turn called the police. When they came he then challenged them and so they pulled out a tazer. He then began screaming at them in order to bring attention to himself and the situation. He told them that he would walk out on his own and asked them not to touch him. As they touched him to get him out of the chair and walking he began to scream more and more and he resisted them by refusing to walk. They told him he had a choice walk or get tased. He chose to get tased all the while he was screaming for attention. They again told him to walk he again refused and they again tased him. After one or two times of being tased I would think it would become difficult to walk. I would think it would become difficult to keep piss and shit inside your body as opposed to outside it. I don't know the technicalities of what it does to the body to be tased so I can only assume. But in my opinion more than 2 or 3 tases in one particular arrest attempt should be the limit. I think these officers were in the right for tasing the guy the first two times but after that they were totally out of line. I also think the kid is exploiting the state of the nation right now and his own race. He was outside the policy and he knew it but instead of leaving when the librarian or the police asked him the first time he decided to exercise whatever privilege he grew up with in his family life (even if it was simply that every time he cried his mommy came running) and challenge them. Little did he know that momma's little boy doesn't always get his way and his immature, emotional and egotistical behavior deserves a couple of extra tases any way. If I was the judge in this case I would rule that the kid get nothing because he acted like a frickin spoiled ungrateful brat, and that the cops in this situation be punished for their actions. They were definitely out of line.
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posted by Unknown at 1:35 AM
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I watched this video and listened to witness testimony the guy was an idiot and was "guilty" so to speak of being a brat. The librarian asked him to leave and he didn't. He's a dumbass who decided to be a disrespectful little runt to someone who works for a living. That person called the cops. He still refused and started to make a scene to attract attention because he didn't want to follow a rule he thinks is stupid. After the first two tases the cops became dickheads though. Just because this guy is a fit throwing cry baby whose parents babied him when he whined about not getting his way it doesn't justify tasing him 5 times in 6 and a half minutes. That is why I think the guy got his punishment for being a dumbass by having the shit tased out of him he deserves to be punished till he grows up and doesn't need to be rewarded with lawsuit money. The cops should get tases once a minute for 7 minutes as their punishment then watch the same thing happen to their kids and have to pay 3000 bucks and have three months off without pay. And the kids parents should have the shit smacked out of them for not teaching the kid to respect his elders, follow rules and learn that life isn't a basket full of roses where you always get your way.
I can't believe you people are defending these cops. This guy was on public property (UCLA is a public, tax-dollar funded university) so his inalienable rights as a sovereign individual have to be respected, unless he voluntarily signed away some or all of those rights. He *may* have entered into a contract saying something generic like "you will abide by school policies" if he was a student at UCLA.
But in any case, police / security have NO authority to physically brutalize somebody for passive resistance, or just being a jerk. They could have killed this kid by shocking him repeatedly with that taser, for crying out loud.
Yeah, maybe he was being a jerk, maybe not... but that's irrelevant. He was abused by police who had no reason to do so. These officers should be fired immediately at a minimum.
No one is defending the cops it is just that there is a particular level of tasing that is within standards and after that the cops are out of bounds. No one said they were right just that the punk they fried wasn't either. He was perfectly capable and able to walk out of the place when asked by the librarian in the first place and it was likely not that far back to the dorm to get his ID. He just wanted to exercise some sort of invisible power. Little did he know he would end up with more power than he expected. Too bad he'll never learn his lesson. He'll probably be rewarded for being a loser. It's not that the cops should be let off but this guy definitely should not be rewarded.
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