Brutality

[parazel]

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

Comments

I'm going to be hard on the kid on purpose here.

[gale_wind]

Really.

For once I'm siding with the cops, however what they did was still wrong, just not as wrong of how people are making it to be.

For him and the students, way to go being a stereotypical whiny rich emos by blaming the Patriot Act for abuse of tasers which has probably been around much longer than it.

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.

Yes, that usually happens when people are trying to create a riot. It happened at my school when people crowed around casuing calamity and then a teacher's head was bashed in.

Try reading the Latimes Article.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cellcamera16nov16,0,4794591.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Re: I'm going to be hard on the kid on purpose here.

[gale_wind]

crowded.

This all could have been avoided if he would have simply:

1. Showed them his ID like he's suppose to.

2. Not yell/scream and shout at the police when he was obviously in the wrong for not identifying himself.

What people should have been focusing on was the end part of this, what I mean those extra un-needed taserings. I believe they should be held accountable and punished for that.

Re: I'm going to be hard on the kid on purpose here.

[parazel]

He didn't have his ID... and he was already leaving the building when they started Tasering him. He did, apparently, delay for a few minutes, though.

The whole "Patriot Act" thing was probably anger and fear coming out. I'd probably scream something dramatic, too, if someone Tasered me while I was trying to obey them...

Yes, that usually happens when people are trying to create a riot.

Except that there's no evidence that a riot was forming? Only people yelling at the cops to stop... as far as I know, nobody used physical force, except for the cops themselves.

Re: I'm going to be hard on the kid on purpose here.

[parazel]

actually, another source says he waited for 20 minutes before leaving. o.o I don't know... reports are conflicting. I still think that using a Taser was unnecessary, especially after he was already handcuffed... and after he "wouldn't get up" (perhaps he couldn't get up).

Re: I'm going to be hard on the kid on purpose here.

[parazel]

i'm not trying to say that he shouldn't have been taken out of the library, by the way, but that using a Taser was unnecessary.