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Cops tazes UCLA student 5-6 times

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asac
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http://www.break.com/index/student_gets_tazed_for_not_having_id.html

Aren't tazers supposed to be used against a dangerous assailant and not a college student in a library?
Also, listen near the end when the cop is talking to the kid in a white tshirt. 'You wanna get tazed too?'
187 on a motherfucking cop
Nov 16 2006 6:06PM
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BenBach
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for everyone who doesnt understand, telling an officer to fuck off is illegal and a form of assault. That guy was out of control and he got tazed because he wouldnt calm down, listen, shut the fuck up, and do what he should have done.

Besides the video only shows the kid getting tazed, it doesnt show him probably resisting the cops before he got tazed.
Nov 17 2006 9:51AM
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-+Siver+-
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he asked for it
Nov 17 2006 9:59AM
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BenBach
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wow you sound smart
Nov 17 2006 10:05AM
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J.D.
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Pretty much everyone defending the officers doesn't know what actually happened. No, they didn't ask him for ID. The library guys asked him for ID. He didn't have it and wouldn't leave, so they went and got the security guys, at which point he TRIED to leave (read: cooperated) and they tased him repeatedly as he shouted about abuse of power and other students tried to get them to stop. He didn't fuck with the cops or disobey them, what command could they have given him other than "leave", which he was already doing? Oh right... stand up, after we've just send a bunch of incapacitating electricity through your body three or four times. Oh you can't? Well, I know how to solve that, we'll tase you again.

I guarantee those two are fired by now. I will be surprised if they aren't put on trial.
Nov 17 2006 10:13AM
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*Fujative*
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sure, but its fucking bullshit.... at the end of the video he cant get up.
Nov 17 2006 10:23AM
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720laxskier
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they best be fired
Nov 17 2006 10:45AM
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timoski
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hahaa bullshit
Nov 17 2006 10:46AM
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BenBach
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go look it up dumbass
Nov 17 2006 12:09PM
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derbski
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even if thats true, he didnt need to be tazed 6 times for 7 seconds at a time
Nov 17 2006 12:52PM
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RudyGarmisch
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Abuse of power, this guy should win his case.
Nov 17 2006 1:04PM
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Planet_Captain
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http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960

theres an article about what happened...
Nov 17 2006 1:11PM
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Bulky
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thats total bullshit you can say whatever the fuck you want to a cop. it may not help your situstion but its def not illegal
Nov 17 2006 1:55PM
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skifree919
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You have to be kidding me. He was out of control? Yea give me a fucking break. Okay he should have calmly explained to the police his situation, but when two cops are grilling you with qeusitons and grabbing your arm, you get a little tense. "probably resisting the cops". Bullshit. He was not. You just pulled that our of your ass. He did not deserve this. I would understand if the police cuffed him, but tazed him? You can't be serious. Tazers hurt so fucking bad its unbelievable. I probably wouldn't have been able to move, or even if i could i would have been too stunned to move. This is an OBVIOUS example of WAY to much force, and these officers should get shit for this. Normally I'm on the side of police, but this is just way way too much
Nov 17 2006 2:08PM
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Chubby.Chaser
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trespassing, no id, so he can't prove he has permission to be there at that time(ie prove being a student of ucla)

same deal at my library, from 10-30pm-2am, you need to have student identification to be there
Nov 17 2006 2:13PM
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J.D.
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Okay, first, telling a cop to fuck off isn't assault. Threatening him is assault. Threatening anyone is assault. Like threatening to tase them if they keep asking for your badge number. Oh...

PS - These guys weren't "cops". They were campus security. Get it straight. Half of you haven't got a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Nov 17 2006 2:41PM
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MADr.
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thank you.

and fuck those police. that was not right. he was not asking for it, he was fucking leaving. if that happened to me, shit would fly. id make sure that cop never had a job outside of cleaning toilets ever again. sorry, but unnecessary use of force is never ok and that was a serious breach of that guys rights.
Nov 17 2006 3:04PM
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Badfish2
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students in the library will sue as well if the police are found to have used excessive force because that would have been pretty traumatizing.
Nov 17 2006 3:19PM
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Nickskier
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right. you told me what laws he was in violation of. thanks! now answer my other question. You think "tresspassing, no ID, so he can't prove he has permission to be there at that time" is a serious enough offense to requie a tasering?
Nov 17 2006 4:19PM
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Mogsbury
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kid deserved it
Nov 17 2006 4:29PM
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nothanks
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The secruity guys that were there were UCPD, of which I believe are a section of California State Police.

Regardless, I'm excited to see the lawsuits that come from this.
Nov 17 2006 4:51PM
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Kazabazua
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you don't have to show the cop your id... they need a warrant to search you.
Nov 17 2006 5:33PM
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Kazabazua
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so next time a cop asks for your name or anything, just dont say anything or give them a fake name, cause there really not aloud to ask you that
Nov 17 2006 5:34PM
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rocMALONEYphotos
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fuck the cops they abused there power waaayy to much that was out of control, SUE THERE ASSSSSSS
Nov 17 2006 5:49PM
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derbski
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if you dont show ID they can escort you from the library, read the article, it sasy that the library is restricted to students after 11, so they could escort him if he couldnt show an ID, but all of the tazing was not needed
Nov 17 2006 5:54PM
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RudyGarmisch
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The guy was in handcuffs. Tazers are supposed to be used to 'subdue' criminals. The guy was clearly subdued, and if you disagree, then I guess we need to stop using handcuffs, since they clearly don't work. The tazer-ing was totally unnecessary, the cops were clearly either trying to make an example (of why you should have ID in the library after hours?) or were just abusing their authority.
Nov 17 2006 7:37PM
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Mod
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Police: Get up or you'll get tazed again
Student: Fuck off!

hmmm
Nov 17 2006 7:41PM
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brokebutitsworthit
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i wouldnt call the school newspaper the best source in the world, i know how opinionated and biased they are.  Funny as shit though to read (paper, not the situation)
Nov 18 2006 7:10AM
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whattheshit
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i don't know what was funnier, the kid getting tased or the hippy liberal ucla kids demanding their badge numbers.


i don't have any sympathy for the kid. he could have made it a lot easier on himself if he got up and walked with the security in stead of pulling a rosa parks.
Nov 18 2006 7:32AM
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