I agree it was a little excessive, especially since he wasn't really resisting once he got tasered, but if the guy had ended up *not* being a UCLA student and had been a crazy guy looking up bomb plans on the computers, how would you feel?
An unidentified person refusing to comply with the orders of a police officer is lucky to just get tasered. If the guy was a student and did belong in the lab, he had rights, like producing identification at the police station or outside the building and being let back into the building, but none of those rights included disobeying a police officer. Sucks, but that's how our system is set up.
In my opinion, the second taze is the most that the police needed to prevent him from being any danger to themselves and any other people, which is the reason the police are permitted to use force. Any further infliction of pain is beyond the scope of the police's duties.
If the person did anything to deserve punishment, it isn't the job of the police force to decide the degree or the form. It's the job of the legal system. That's how our system is set up.
"I agree it was a little excessive, especially since he wasn't really resisting once he got tasered, but if the guy had ended up *not* being a UCLA student and had been a crazy guy looking up bomb plans on the computers, how would you feel
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Oooh, and this might amuse you...some idiot commenting on the YouTube video called him a "Ghandi Wannabe Terrorist". That's so many different kinds of awesome it makes my head isplode.
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I agree it was a little excessive, especially since he wasn't really resisting once he got tasered, but if the guy had ended up *not* being a UCLA student and had been a crazy guy looking up bomb plans on the computers, how would you feel?
An unidentified person refusing to comply with the orders of a police officer is lucky to just get tasered. If the guy was a student and did belong in the lab, he had rights, like producing identification at the police station or outside the building and being let back into the building, but none of those rights included disobeying a police officer. Sucks, but that's how our system is set up.
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If the person did anything to deserve punishment, it isn't the job of the police force to decide the degree or the form. It's the job of the legal system. That's how our system is set up.
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