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Re: Wow.. thats a Lawsuit waiting to happen..
By US is now a Police State
Jan 5th 2008
at 2:46 pm EST
You missed one point. HE WAS HANDCUFFED and they still tazed him repeatedly. The 2 cops should be handcuffed and the student allowed to taze them repeatedly! Clearly once he is handcuffed AND ON THE GROUND MOTIONLESS, there is no excuse for tazing.
UCLA police repeatedly Tased Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a student who was asked to leave the library because he did not display a student ID. According to newsreports, the student initially refused to leave Tuesday night, then got up and headed for the door. An officer then allegedly grabbed him by his shoulder, at which point Tabatabainejad can be heard yelling, "Get off me!" It was at that point that an officer first Tased him, causing him to fall to the floor.
Police Tased him at least once more before he left, after he went limp and officers repeatedly ordered him to stand up. I would imagine the officers, who would not identify themselves to bystanders, did not know portions of the event were being videotaped.
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