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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