Hi everyone,
im sure you've seen this by now, but if you haven't you should watch
it. An Iranian-American undergraduate UCLA student was tazered
unnecessarily by police many times for refusing to show his student id
at the UCLA library. this happened tuesday night.
you need to watch it with the audio on to get the full effect. it's
really horrifying. there is a link to the LA times article, and a link
to the video on You Tube below.
*Carmina
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Date: Nov 16, 2006 3:59 PM
Subject: Fwd: UCLA police brutality
Have you heard about the Iranian student who was tazed at the library?
Here is the LA times article:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cellcamera16nov16,0,4794591.story?coll=la-home-headlines Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3GstYOIc0I The video is really chilling. Tazering a student once is completely
excessive force for refusing to show your student id at the library.
But tazering him 3-4 more times for refusing to stand up?! The shock
and stun of the tazer gun probably immobilized him and rendered him
unable to stand up straight. But i guess when you look "foreign" or
aka, "suspicious" it becomes a "necessity" right?