Very Upsetting

[zsquirrelboy]

From Majikthise:

UCLA police were caught on cell-phone video repeatedly "Taseing" a 23-year-old student who allegedly refused to show ID at the library:
Campus police report said community service officers were doing their nightly sweep of the library to ensure that all users after 11 p.m. are students or authorized patrons, the Times said.

Comments

[evildave]

Yeah, the libraries here are way more interesting than back in undergrad. :)

The local "news" is having a field day... it's the third story concerning questionable police conduct this week alone.

[zsquirrelboy]

I heard about that. Do you think it's being sensationalized? Or deliberately minimized?

One a complete tanget: When the hell did Cell Phones become able to record several minutes of video? I don't like feeling like I'm suddenly in the future like that.

[evildave]

I've thought both things. The video of the first arrest was pretty bad... the guy did look like he was struggling, but the cop who was sitting on top of him kept punching him in the face. The video of the second arrest looked like it was sensationalized. The second one involved a guy getting pushed down to the ground, and then another cop running into the scene and (probably accidentally?) stepping on the guy's head when he tried to jump over him. The audio accompanying the video of the thing in Powell sounds pretty vicious, but you can't really see much happening until the end, when you still can't see much other than the guy acting limp.

I hear what you mean about the Future, though. Not only do the cell phones get the video, but then it's all over the innernets in minutes!

[harimad]

How is someone "going limp" in order to resist a reason to tazer someone? Limpness doesn't constitute a threat to the officers' safety.