Student tazered at UCLA for not having his ID

[Mirage]

I just checked this out: relating to my first comment, when I said "I'm not sure if we even have or need University security in Canada," I looked it up and it turns out we don't have any university security in Canada. If there is a problem local police show up on the scene, but there are no in-school police, and if there were, I doubt that ID would be a problem.

Recently, however, there was a shooting in Montreal, and now people are saying we might get University security. Still, I doubt something like this would happen as a result.

Another thing occured to me. This is a long shot, but what if this was all staged as shock treatment so that more people start carrying around their ID? I can't see how this could be good publicity for security, but maybe they weren't counting on this blowing up so much, and they just wanted to make more people make sure to have their ID.

A pretty wierd idea, I know. It's probably completely unlikely, but I thought it might add another dynamic to the topic.

And the fact that the camera-man magically has a camera at this wonderful moment. How convenient.

Even mobile phones that cost $50 has the ability to record videos these days. The more expensive phones have cameras that rival my 5 year old digital camera.

And meh, I dunno. The guy was acting like an idiot, but tazing isn't meant to be for punishing people, it is to get them under control. Two policemen versus a student doesn't seem like the biggest of problems, and definitely not if said student is lying on the floor. The danger of a riot would have been far smaller if they hadn't used the tazer repeatedly too.