UCLA Student tazered...

[lensman]

For not showing ID and not leaving fast enough....

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/16/ucla-student-tasered-in-library/

Watch on YouTube

There was definitely more than what was shown in the video.... The kid probably mouthed off to the officers, and there may have been more to this altercation, but what in the video is un-acceptable.

Okay, I can understand the reason the UCPD carry tazers, and I can even understand their use as a NON-LEATHAL weapon to subdue an overly rowdy student, But THIS DISGRACE is just absurd. They had the student IN HAND-CUFFS, and they were continuing to tazer the kid just because he wouldn't get up!!! Hell after beings tazered he probably COULDN'T GET UP!!!!

Once they had those cuffs on him anything more is sheer brutality, and those officers should be held accountable for that.

I say tazer them each for every time they tazered that kid after they had him cuffed.

But on second thought they might enjoy that too much...

Comments

[mrtee.livejournal.com]

http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/zippdf/2006/Taser%2011-15-06.pdf

[lensman.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but once they had the kid in cuffs I don't think they should have continued the use of the taser. If he was passively resistant, that where the buck up and lift the kid out of there to remove him from the situation, not try to "drive" him like cattle.

Also from the sheer number of times they tasered the student he may have been un-able to comply:

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

and in multiple uses on a single target these devices had had lethal effects in the past: http://www.november.org/stayinfo/breaking06/JustifyTasers.html/

[mrtee.livejournal.com]

I'm reserving judgement, but I look at it differently.

Carrying non-compliant people down stairs is unacceptable. As an EMT we had to strap people into a "stair chair" and that was mostly to protect them for when we dropped them.

The cattle drive is a bit much, but in my opinion, the fact that he was screaming like a bitch, using "accessory muscles" to do so (as do asthmatics and COPD'ers do) and lashing out coherantly indicates he had his shit together enough to actively resist. Passive folk who can't move or obey/refuse/respond to commands are just too...passive to act that way, whether they be ill, messed up in the head, or struck by lightning. Agitated folk can walk.

Of course to determine such, you'd have to be face to face with that kid.

The only other choice was to carry him, and that is unacceptable. I have no concrete data, but dropping people on their head has been known to have lethal effects. The police may carry protesters away routinely, but being dropped on your ass is a different thing all together.