Hurry up and view this before youtube deletes this

BobbyTheDon · #1 11-16-2006, 05:08 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_M8s0GFEc

UCLA kid gets tased at a library. It was a late night, he was asked to show ID. He didn't have ID. Was asked to leave...blah blah blah then gets tased.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A UCLA police officer shocked a student with a stun gun at a campus library after he refused repeated requests to show student identification and wouldn't leave, police said.

The student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was shocked Tuesday at about 11 p.m. as police did a routine check of student IDs at the University of California, Los Angeles Powell Library computer lab.

"This is a long-standing library policy to ensure the safety of students during the late-night hours," said UCLA Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.

She said police tried to escort Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library after he refused to provide identification. Tabatabainejad instead encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, and when a crowd began to gather, police used the stun gun on him, Greenstein said.

Tabatabainejad was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer and later released on his own recognizance. He declined to comment Wednesday night.

The incident was recorded on another student's camera phone and showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. It was the third incident in a month in which police behavior in the city was criticized after amateur video surfaced. The other two involved the Los Angeles Police Department.

Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams promised an investigation.

"The safety of our campus community is of paramount importance to me," Abrams said in a statement.

PhoenixAzul · #2 11-16-2006, 05:39 PM

My political stances aside, I'm sort of interested in the fact that so many people whipped out their phones to document this. From a journalism POV...

Oh, and why would YouTube delete this? There's a bunch of other associated videos of tazings/police arrests? I don't use the site enough to know why.

AChiOhSnap · #3 11-16-2006, 08:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobbyTheDon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_M8s0GFEc

UCLA kid gets tased at a library. It was a late night, he was asked to show ID. He didn't have ID. Was asked to leave...blah blah blah then gets tased.

Was he wearing a hoodie? That'll get you tased too.

CUGreekgirl · #4 11-16-2006, 08:46 PM

That video made me ill.

I think its ashame how people in uniform often abuse their power.

AlexMack · #5 11-16-2006, 09:02 PM

If I was a cop I'd have continued tazing him just for being a little bitch. Seriously. Shut up about the Patriot Act you little pussy. If you stand up and walk out with the nice policemen, you won't get tazered again.
Giant tool.

Drolefille · #6 11-16-2006, 10:19 PM

He was an ass for not following the rules: If you're at the library late at night, you must have a student ID. So they ask him to leave and he goes limp and becomes a greater ass. However, multiple tasings is just the cops being stupid. And didn't they tase him with cuffs on? Isn't that big no-no?

KillarneyRose · #7 11-17-2006, 07:40 AM

Aaaah, it's been awhile since I graduated college but I'm glad to see the egocentricity and delusions of entitlement in some students are still alive and well...

BobbyTheDon · #8 11-17-2006, 01:26 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0KRCUalPgg

check that video out.

This lady bit a man. Then got tased. Then says, " I can't move bitch! What chu think Imma do!"

oh c'mon. If you guys can't laugh at that line...

AlexMack · #9 11-17-2006, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by BobbyTheDon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0KRCUalPgg

check that video out.

This lady bit a man. Then got tased. Then says, " I can't move bitch! What chu think Imma do!"

oh c'mon. If you guys can't laugh at that line...

That's beautiful. Seriously.

#10 11-17-2006, 02:25 PM

That is really shocking and completely messed up. If the rule has been in place for all this time to show ID (as a student he should of already have known that) and at that time of night then what was the big deal in resisting showing his ID? Unless he wasn't a student.....I don't know about the force of tazers....it looks inhumane but then again they were cops , be it campus security, though they had to inforce the rules and this guy was completely (out of bounds on his part) egging them on with his whole BS about the patriot act crap and forcing them to step in and take him out. They Should of gotten it over with by either dragging him away without it blowing up to what it became or forcing him to show the ID (which they tried unsuccessfully)....They should of done something productive on their parts to alliviate the situation and moved on without it becoming what it became.

Also because this was a safety issue... it was smart of UCLA police to check ID's ....i say this because it was on local news last night that Cal State Long Beach campus is having problems with some attacker attacking female students on their campus occuring during late night/early moring hours. Heck if you look suspicious and resist showing proper ID then guess what they were well in their duty to enforce whatever consequence need be ( tazers) to get his sorry butt out of the library. He was just the dumb ass to make it what it became. It was not profiling ....dumb ass tried to be all liberal and envoking some patriot act to further his cause/stance of stupidity!

FHwku · #11 11-17-2006, 03:12 PM

he was screaming at the top of his lungs in the library.

i would've tazed him just for that.

"here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power!"

that would've been another taze.

so...you just got tazed a couple times, and you're done screaming like a demon. what next? he decides it's a good time to go limp, saying that he would leave, but won't stand up. (officer: "stand up!" tazed guy:"fuck off!")

so sidelines guy apparently decides now is a good time to give a civil rights speech, "this is about abuse of authority..."

i would've tazed him, but i'm an asshole. i've seen small children act the same way in a store. they throw the same tantrum, they scream, they go limp, and everybody wants their parents to just drag them out. you hope mom just takes the kid out of the store, and not spank them in public. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, got spanked.

the kid in the store is a lil' kid though.

RU OX Alum · #12 11-17-2006, 03:22 PM

yeah....campus security has too much power...actully, everyone in that video is completely useless as a human being

_Opi_ · #13 11-17-2006, 03:30 PM

Being tazed that many times, that's borderline torture.

They could've just dragged him out. That would have been using less force.

Since when did using a tazer become an only option?

JonInKC · #14 11-22-2006, 07:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BobbyTheDon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0KRCUalPgg

check that video out.

This lady bit a man. Then got tased. Then says, " I can't move bitch! What chu think Imma do!"

oh c'mon. If you guys can't laugh at that line...

I love it. He tells her two or three times, get out of the car or you're gettin' tazed. Instead of just shutting her hole and exiting the vehicle, she offers her irrelevant opinion and then tells the police not to touch her. Nice thong, btw.

About the other clip, the guy sure talks about leaving, but from what I could make out from that clip (which was not terribly useful) he doesn't leave. Why don't the cops carry tranquilizer guns like on Metal Gear? Then people would stop screaming like the police had just eaten a baby. Or not.

starang21 · #15 11-22-2006, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by JonInKC

Why don't the cops carry tranquilizer guns like on Metal Gear?

LOL, and shake them down for dog tags?