Ah college kids, was I ever so dumb?

[thereject]

If you're asked to leave the University library because you don't have or refuse to show an ID, you need to leave. When you fail to leave in a timely manner and are escorted out by the police, do not... I repeat do not slap at the police and scream "Get your fucking hands off me!" like a pissy 8 year old

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[danigolden]

HERE'S YOUR PATRIOT ACT!

[ernunnos]

I'm so making that my ringtone.

[belgand]

Yes, he was acting pissy, but he was also, according to witnesses on his way out when the police approached him and one of them grabbed his arm. The use of a taser is pretty excessive in such circumstances. As is the use of a taser repeatedly against someone who is resisting you in a non-violent way and insisting that he is leaving. Some reports state that he was handcuffed when he was tasered again

[thereject]

Sure the cops grabbed him. They were informed he was trespassing, and probably wanted to assess the situation. By the time the cops showed up, he was already committing a crime. Instead of saying "I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't be here and I'm leaving" he screamed "Get your fucking hands off me!" and became combative. He chose not to settle down so he got tasered and cuffed. That's what happens when you commit a crime then refuse to cooperate.

Of course they kept tasering him because he was being a pain in the ass. He was resisting. Had he started cooperating, they would have stopped tasering. That's extacty what a taser is for. It's a compliance tool. By the time the taser came out, it had become an arrest and not an eviction from the library. At that point you don't get to say "I'm leaving, you can't arrest me!"

The most problematic part is when the cop threatens to taser a bystander after he asks for his badge number. That's not what happened. He told the guy he would get tasered if he didn't get back. That is a perfectly

[danigolden]

I'm betting a pretty large percentage of both the LAPD and the student body of UCLA don't even really need the threat of less than lethal weapons to act like assholes.

It always kinda surprises me when the LAPD does something like this, since they're under such intense scrutiny. You think they'd start acting like pussycats. Not that they should, I can't even begin to imagine the assholes a cop deals with on a daily basis, especially campus police. I'm just saying, this really couldn't have ended well either way.

[belgand]

Gotta agree. Still, as I said earlier the fact that they're surrounded by a crowd a students would seemingly have put them on some degree of good behavior. This is pretty much one of the worst-case scenarios for not trying to look like an asshole to begin with and then they go and taser the hell out of this guy anyway.

If they had picked him up and carried him out or let go of him and let him leave on his own (as he claimed to be doing) it would have been largely a non-situation.