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Re: Mostafa Tabatabainejad
By Jan
Sep 27th 2007
at 9:29 am EDT
"Try doing a job where you are allways outnumbered and the people around you are either trying to kill or hurt you, or set you up for a law suit."
You were in a college library - if that is a situation where people are trying to hurt you or kill you then I'd not want to go to the "bad" areas in LA.
"Listen, don't ever challenge a cops authority whether you think you are right or wrong."
Agree.
"do you want some warm fuzzy type, or do you want someone who will do what it takes to neutralize the situation and send you home to see your family another day"
Does the one eliminate the other? I want a cop who is trained in assessing the current situation - not pulling out the gun or the taser on school students when the cops outnumber the subjects 1:5. I want cops like I want the dogs - cuddly and the kids' best friends as well as the most fierce creatures when needed.
Lastly I have a lot of respect for cops all over the world - not least in tough areas like LA. I also agree that some people use any opportunity to scream police brutality. But in this case it seems the police overreacted and admitting this is very important for the credibility of the force.
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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You were in a college library - if that is a situation where people are trying to hurt you or kill you then I'd not want to go to the "bad" areas in LA.
"Listen, don't ever challenge a cops authority whether you think you are right or wrong."
Agree.
"do you want some warm fuzzy type, or do you want someone who will do what it takes to neutralize the situation and send you home to see your family another day"
Does the one eliminate the other? I want a cop who is trained in assessing the current situation - not pulling out the gun or the taser on school students when the cops outnumber the subjects 1:5. I want cops like I want the dogs - cuddly and the kids' best friends as well as the most fierce creatures when needed.
Lastly I have a lot of respect for cops all over the world - not least in tough areas like LA. I also agree that some people use any opportunity to scream police brutality. But in this case it seems the police overreacted and admitting this is very important for the credibility of the force.