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What If It Was You?

by clorenz1 | November 17, 2006 at 03:45 pm

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Seriously, I used to forget my USF Id card all the time when I would go to study at the library. Imagine if it was your school, your peers, and your library where you were tasered multiple times in front of your fellow students. The library is a place of quiet and more importantly a place where as a student I felt the safest on campus. I knew I could go there and become a better student. The fact is it does not matter where this would have taken place to make it wrong, but it sure should add to the sheer outrage every student across the US should feel for their fellow persons.

The student has since hired a lawyer...

Watch the video on YouTube...

The Facebook announcement calls on students to join the march "not just because you're Persian/Iranian but because you care about your fellow human beings." A cellphone videotape of the evidence, obtained by the Daily Bruin, gives a detailed account of the library incident.

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gonzo

at 23:05 on November 18th, 2006

First they came for my neighbour and I said nothing. Then they came for my brother and I said nothing. Then they came for me...

mtippett

at 23:09 on November 18th, 2006

UCLA Taser is in the top search terms of technorati. This incident owns 'ucla' on yahoo news. The news truly is now public.

chaosfades

at 02:00 on November 20th, 2006

That video is awesome. I'm glad to know that this story is getting real coverage, because shit like this shouldn't be happening in our world, let alone at one of the United States' finest institutions.

clorenz1

at 09:09 on November 20th, 2006

A great addition gonzo, thank you for adding the post. And the photograph set was really informative chaosfades, nicely done, thank you for the contribution.

I was not sure if this story was going to get the coverage it needed, but it looks like people are hearing about it everywhere.

Demosthenes

at 22:51 on November 20th, 2006

I'm going to disagree with all of the above posters. In this, I don't see an abuse of power, of the system vs. the man. All I see is a dickhead of a student who wouldn't leave when asked to leave first by the campus CSOs and then by the UCPD. Let's face it, the student wouldn't have been tased in the first place if he had just left to go get his student ID.

As for this being racial profiling, did anyone call him a raghead or other slur? No. Didn't hear that once.

The cop telling the student that he would get tased too if he didn't shut up was out of line. But on the other hand, the student was out of line as well for not getting up and leaving.

If the student was rendered immobile by the tasing, why didn't he yell out, "I'M TRYING TO GET UP BUT I CAN'T! I CAN'T GET UP!" He didn't yell that once because he was purposely resisting. He knew what he was doing and was punished accordingly.

blasco

at 05:28 on November 22nd, 2006

Hello all
I intervene here to react to the remarks inaccurate made by Mister
“Demosthenes” dixit Denosthenes: “He knew what He was doing and was
punished accordingly”. Mr Denosthenes… your assertion is false since
the role of the police force is only to maintain the law and order
while making respect the law and it is certainly rather with justice to
judge and sanction an illegal act and not “to punish”. It seems to me
that this student which disputed sitted floor makes it be control did
not present a physical danger to the people present around him. It seems to
to me that the role of the police force is to use intelligent means to
make respect the law.
It
seems to me to make undergo five electric discharges has a man has
ground is not an intelligent method to regulate the problem.
At first sight I think that the intervention of
the police officers in the way in which it was carried out has a method
legal and intelligent and I am thus impatient to know the result of the
lawsuit in justice which will determine if the police officers have to
strictly respect legality to solve the problem to which they were
presented. Blasco PS: excuse me for my bad English language which is the
result of an automatic google translation ; -)