Brutality
Watch This, and Turn Up the Volume:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE
An article on the incident:
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38958
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.
At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.
The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.
It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.
As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number. (emphasis mine)
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.
"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."
Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.
...And two more:
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_319101652.html
The former is from the same source, but the article is more in depth. It says that the student was shot at least four times with the Taser, even when he was already handcuffed. A study published in the Lancet Medical Journal in 2001 showed that a Taser shot lasting three to five seconds can result in immobilization for five to fifteen minutes. What does this mean? The student may not have been physically able to get up, even though the officers were demanding that he do so.
But just listen to the video. Words can't describe the feeling I got as I listened to those screams...
I was so furious that my eyes filled up with tears. I thought I was actually going to cry. How could someone do this? Why didn't anyone stop them?! Why did they just form a circle around the scene?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE
An article on the incident:
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38958
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.
No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.
At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.
The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.
It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.
Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.
As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.
"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.
As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.
Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number. (emphasis mine)
Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.
"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."
Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.
...And two more:
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960
http://cbs2.com/local/local_story_319101652.html
The former is from the same source, but the article is more in depth. It says that the student was shot at least four times with the Taser, even when he was already handcuffed. A study published in the Lancet Medical Journal in 2001 showed that a Taser shot lasting three to five seconds can result in immobilization for five to fifteen minutes. What does this mean? The student may not have been physically able to get up, even though the officers were demanding that he do so.
But just listen to the video. Words can't describe the feeling I got as I listened to those screams...
I was so furious that my eyes filled up with tears. I thought I was actually going to cry. How could someone do this? Why didn't anyone stop them?! Why did they just form a circle around the scene?