Tazer's are legal in the UK just about for police officers to carry as a non-lethal method to protect themselves against guns or knives (most comonly knives). We had a massive stink about the use of tazers and whether the police should get them or not because the electronic current passing through the victim could infact stop his heart. They work on a HUGE amount of power not just the 90 or so volts it would take to hurt someone enough to make most think twice.

They also leave fully healthy, strong adult men completely unable to stand for several minutes. Seeing as the video was 6 minutes 53 seconds long this means that the Victim did not have time for his muscles to function properly. I heard/saw the tazer being used on him atleast 4 times in that video. 4 times in 6 minutes thats roughly once every 1.5 minutes if we go by an average.

There is the medical side of this to consider, they delivered the tazer shots quite quickly together and in the same spot and the embarassment side of it. Repeated shocks of that level would most likely leave the student unable to control basic muscle functions such as bladder or anal control.

As for the other students being threatened with the tazers? Yeah you see and hear the girl who was quoted one Laila Gordy ask the univeristy campus police for their badge numbers, the police officers reply is muffled by the sounds of screams as the guy is tazered again in the back ground but immediately after as they walk through towards the main hall the same girl can quite clearly be heard to say that they threatened her with a tazer. Straight through in to the main hall at the bottom of the stool is a confrontation between a student and two officers. By this point I counted no less than 4 officers, more than enough to have man-handled the original victim out of the room. However what do they do? Threaten the spectators and the ones demanding their badge numbers with Tazers. I'm going to try my best to quote the cop here but when told that this was brutality he answered along the lines of "This is brutality? If you want brutality carry on" to which a second officer steps up and says something about stepping back or being Tazered too.

The video becomes hazy as more and more people are speaking and calling at the officers to stop their actions. However from the sudden screams I would say that the victim was tazered twice more bringing the count to 4 minimum. Right at the end when they drag him off (I have seen plenty of people dragged around btw, became a normal thing at the clubs I have drunk in) I believe he had actually been knocked out by the pain of the tazers. This guy was not exactly 150 kilos of muscle he was probably about 70 kilos if that thats a lot of pain to be put through, since these tazers are meant to if I have heard this right be able to shock a cow and cause it to stop. A cow weighs on average a ton.

Brutality? Yes, Lawsuit, HELL YES.

UCLA police will be very lucky to keep their jobs and freedom for this one. Also heres another interesting line in the video crackling through from a nearby officers radio "What's going on over there? We're recieving calls about this" I couldn't pick out the reply.