Wheither or not the guy was out of line, being tazered is completely out of order. They could've simply handcuffed him, and have two officers carry him out.
Besides everything else, tazers can immobilize muscle function, so how the hell could he stand up? 6 people with 6 tasers is absolutely ridiculous. Those bullies should be brought to court for simply abusing their power.
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You have to imagine that the rest of the students are foolhardy and unwise. They have scholarships, their criminal records (or lack thereof), and other self-motivated goals like 'not getting arrested' to think about.
I agree that what was done to the person was wrong, but don't expect everybody to start rioting and punching cops. That's just dumb.
That's sick. I don't think I'd be able to just stand there and watch.
I don't understand how cops can taser someone and expect them to immediately get up...
Or even why they tasered him in the first place. There were two cops, there was little sign of an actual physical struggle brewing, he said he was leaving, albeit loudly. He didn't want to leave, that much was certain, but they could have easily of put him in handcuffs and taken him out via that method.
Instead, they choose to taser him so that he's jelly, unable to really cooperate if he wanted to.
GET UP!
Taser
GET UP!
Taser
That makes no sense at all.
But what makes me even more incensed is that all those students simply stood there - standing, nothing more. They all just stood there soaking up the sight to pass on to friends and relatives. They were watching a story of abuse, nothing more.
Why did none press the matter at hand? I heard questions of badge numbers and how it's so wrong, but nothing more really. Where was the action. Are we so damned afraid of those in authority that we are not allowed to question or act on our moral values and compassions?
WTF?
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Originally Posted by Nominus Experse
The cops threatened others with the Taser too but even so i would have done something im not one to fight but I would have done something like try to show the cops he can't get up and to stope acting like assholes!
watching that video brought chills up my spine it was sickening. for once in my life I didn't feel like eating anything.
I pit humanity above these. And yes, I have done this before while my sister was having a seizure and a cop was kicking her and telling her to get up. He said she was on drugs, the hospital said different. No lawsuit nothing. I never even got touched for it. It is easily defendable, and I would rather do what I can to defend someone I know is innocent.
If we as a people are not allowed to intervene when those in power are obviously abusing their position, then there is something terribly wrong.
Here is a link with more information:
http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=38958
So he was ALREADY LEAVING the building before they began questioning him, which subsequently led to this... scene...At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.
The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.
The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.
It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.
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Blatant tazer abuse.
I've seen other videos similar to this one involving police officers and tazers. :/
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How many god damn times did they say "stand up?"
I think the reason the people just stood there was because they were scared, or didn't want to get involved. Also the police were threatening to tazer anyone who got too close, so, if I were there, I wouldn't get too close.
Oh what people do when they're power hungry.
Something needs to be done about this. Even if the guy was out of order this shouldn't have been done. I can see tasering him once if he was very rowdy, but they did it to him how many times because he would refuse to stand up? This is bull****.
*goes to spread this video all over the place*
Last edited by Sephex; 11-17-2006 at 11:36 PM.
I'm not surprised, it's America.
No they're all from the North East. Maryland for one and NY for the other two, I believe.
Cause they don't wanna get tased either.
As for the link to the UCLA's Daily Bruin, (and I hope I ain't stepping on toes here) but they're known for lacking objectivity concerning student events. I'm not saying they're presenting the events in an untruthful way, but there's clearly a lack of equity and reciprocity in the article. Part of this is because the article went to print so soon after the event. The student in question probably hadn't even been processed by the time this was written.
However, I'm pretty much in agreement with everyone else here. This was an example of excessive force, in my opinion. Attempts at physical restraint should always be made before you use a taser on someone, and likely they would have been able to easily physically restrain him. And the threat of use of force on the crowd is absolutely uncalled for.
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