Video: The obligatory UCLA/taser post
Allahpundit
Patterico has background. There’s some dispute about whether they tased (tasered?) him because he was inciting other students or because he was lying on the floor and wouldn’t budge. I thought cops were supposed to use tasers to repel physical attacks, though, not to subdue nonviolent (albeit loud and obnoxious) resisters. The campus newspaper says he was hit at least four times, yet there’s not a single account I’ve seen that alleges he made a move on them.
He’s already lawyered up — make sure to read Patterico’s post for background on that, too — and will attend a news conference this afternoon at 2 p.m. ET to discuss his police brutality suit. Check out this convergence; MEChA and ANSWER and CAIR, oh my! ...
Screaming UCLA student tasered
Michelle Malkin
Been getting e-mails about this all night. Here's the video. The usual police-bashers are attacking campus security for taking extreme measures when the student repeatedly refused to show ID and physically defied them. The student is out of control. A mob forms. Did the officers overreact? (Let me be clear: If those officers broke any laws, they should be prosecuted. But the whole story needs to be told.) Who baited whom? Click to watch:
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The UCLA Daily Bruin reports:
In incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers' use of force was an appropriate response to the situation.
Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in a timely manner. Community Service Officers had asked Tabatabainejad to leave after he failed to produce his BruinCard during a random check at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday. ...
The Los Angeles Times, naturally, is trying to turn this latest videotaped incident into a broad-brushed excuse to tar all law enforcement. L.A. police officer Jack Dunphy weighs in on one of the other recent episodes caught on tape over at Patterico and at NRO.
Look for the administration to eschew a fair hearing of the guards' perspective, take the p.c. line, convene police brutality awareness week, hold anti-profiling forums, indulge the baiters, and use the incident as a pretext for protesting the PATRIOT Act, border security, Gitmo, Iraq, the GOP "climate of fear," and every other left-wing hobby horse in academia.
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Faster than you can say "Islamophobia"--here comes CAIR. ...
Help!!! I'm Being Repressed!!! Come See the Violence Inherent in the System!!!
Ragnar Danneskjold
Looks to me like this kid, Mostafa, is trolling for a juicy civil rights lawsuit. Apparently, a library staffer approached him and asked for his student ID. He refused to show it and the university cops asked him to leave the library. Then Mostafa starts in with this:
Here's your PATRIOT ACT!!!
Here's your fucking ABUSE OF POWER!!!
I SAID I WOULD LEAVE!!!
I SAID... I WOULD LEAVE!!!
He repeatedly claims he's trying to leave, but he's apparently trying to exit the library through a secret trap door, because he spends most of the time lying on the floor. Along the way, the cops hit him with a taser...
