Campus Cops Taser Student

[Krypto-Communist]

Fucking wanna-be cops!!!!!

What? Did these assholes think that this will improve their fucking careers and move them up the fascist hierarchy?????

I hope these fuckers get jailed! I'm guessing this is just a prelude as to what to expect in the USA in the coming decades.

Seig Heil!


Tasered student claims racial profiling

2 hours, 14 minutes ago

A student who was shocked by a campus police officer's Taser gun after he refused to show ID at a UCLA library thought he was being singled out by the officer because of his Middle Eastern appearance, his lawyer said.

Attorney Stephen Yagman said he plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the U.S.-born student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad.

Tabatabainejad, 23, was shocked Tuesday night after arguing with a campus police officer who was conducting a routine check of student IDs at the University of California, Los Angeles Powell Library computer lab.

Yagman said his client declined to show his school ID because he thought he was being targeted for his appearance. His family is of Iranian descent.

Police have said Tabatabainejad encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, and when a crowd gathered, the officer used the stun gun on him.

Yagman disputed that, saying Tabatabainejad started yelling to draw attention after the police officer pulled out the Taser.

Tabatabainejad was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer and later released on his own recognizance.

The incident, recorded on another student's camera phone, showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. It was the third time in a month in which police behavior in the city was criticized after amateur video surfaced.

UCLA's interim chancellor, Norman Abrams, urged the public to withhold judgment while the campus police department investigates.

Several civil rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have called for an inde

pendent review.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_...unned&printer=1 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_us/student_stunned&printer=1)

[Bolshevist]

Here is a video of the incident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs&eurl=

Some people shouldn't be in a position of authority :angry:

[Iggy]

I found this video on www.break.com today, I found it quite shocking (excuse the pun). Watch it, here (http://www.break.com/index/student_gets_tazed_for_not_having_id.html)

[BreadBros]

Yeah I saw that. That video is fucked up. I hope the guy sues the pants off them. Restricting police powers and stopping police brutality is a cause students should join around and fight against.

[Tekun]

Some ppl have suggested that it was racially motivated
I disagree though, anyone in that position was gonna get tasered by the authoritarian working class pigs who see these wealthy kids at UCLA like spoiled brats
The pigs were just trigger happy with their toys
To me, this is a typical case of police brutality, though its gonna take a good argument for me to consider it as racially motivated

[Whitten]

How the fuck are you expected to get up after being tazered?
Better yet how the fuck is Tazering someone repeatedly going to make them stand up any quicker?
Better yet how the fuck is being incapacitated in agony on the floor "resisting arrest"? Are there not legal restriction on when they can use tazers?

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2006 11:22 am
Some ppl have suggested that it was racially motivated
I disagree though, anyone in that position was gonna get tasered by the authoritarian working class pigs who see these wealthy kids at UCLA like spoiled brats
The pigs were just trigger happy with their toys
To me, this is a typical case of police brutality, though its gonna take a good argument for me to consider it as racially motivated
You are an idiot. When has the police ever tasered a white student? That's right, never.

It's obvious to everyone with a brain that the action of the police was racially motivated.

[Rollo]

Never? I'm a white student and I've been subjected to way worse things than tasering.

[Led Zeppelin]

Ugh, when I post here I assume people can think.

I meant white students at the UCLA, not white students everywhere and at any time in the history of mankind.

[Rollo]

Ugh, when I read here I assume people will write what they mean.

[BreadBros]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2006 03:31 pm
Never? I'm a white student and I've been subjected to way worse things than tasering.
You're in Australia. Things are very different.

Tekun: the reason the student claims its racially motivated is that the police within the library apparently when directly to him first when they came in to check IDs. He happens to be Persian, so he thought he was targetted for his appearance.

[Martin Blank]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18, 2006 06:22 am
Some ppl have suggested that it was racially motivated
I disagree though, anyone in that position was gonna get tasered by the authoritarian working class pigs who see these wealthy kids at UCLA like spoiled brats
The pigs were just trigger happy with their toys
To me, this is a typical case of police brutality, though its gonna take a good argument for me to consider it as racially motivated
First of all, cops are not workers of any type. They are the "armed bodies" that make up the capitalist state, not just another brand of "civil servant".

Second, there is a long history of tension at UCLA between Iranian students and white officials, going all the way back to the 1979 Revolution. Anti-Iranian racism is part of the "culture" at that school.

Third, as BreadBros. pointed out, the rent-a-cops came into the library and made a bee-line for the guy. According to the article in UCLA's Daily Bruin (http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=39009):


Yagman said Tabatabainejad was asked to show his BruinCard, and did not do so because, as an U.S.-born student of Iranian descent, he believed he was being singled out in an incident of racial profiling. Yagman said that to his knowledge his client was the only person who was asked to show ID.

The university has said the check was routine and such procedures include a check of everyone present.

The 23-year-old student had begun to leave the room at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday when he was approached by the police, Yagman said.

"Our client (was) ... already on his way out," the attorney said.

As Tabatabainejad was leaving the room, he was approached by two officers, one of whom grabbed the student"s arm. When officers did not let go of his arm, Tabatabainejad fell limp to the floor, Yagman said.

The video footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs) begins just before Tabatabainejad, yelling, "Don't touch me!", fell limp to the floor.

This was clearly a case of racial profiling, "Homeland Security" style. Tabatabainejad was leaving the library, was not bothering anyone and, up to the point when the cops assaulted him (laying hands on a person for no reason is assault, even if you're a cop), had not done anything wrong. And being that he was the only one stopped, it's pretty clear that the cops had him singled out for a session of "Papieren, bitte".

It is also clearly a case of police violence and terror. Tasering someone once is bad enough (and anyone who says they've been "subjected" to worse better start showing me the bullet holes, because, as someone who's been tasered by a police-issue -- let me repeat that: police-issue -- direct-stun taser, there's not much worse than that). Tasering someone over and over again (I counted seven times; the lawyer says five), and then demanding they stand up, is punitive and more than excessive. It's sadistic, and potentially deadly.

"This is your PATRIOT Act!"

Miles

[Keyser]

Forget about any bourgeois liberal campaign for better policing or a restriction on their powers to search, arrest and deal with people.

The police need to go, there is no real benefit the workers or any member of society outside the capitalist class gets from them, forget about the illusions that are propagated by the ruling class that the police protect us or prevent mass chaos from breaking out on the streets, there all lies.

Fuck, the only people I have been harrased by are the police, never had any problems on the streets from normal people, even in the rough areas. Yet the media and the ruling class say it's the "hooded youths in run down areas" who are dangerous, fuck that, most people fear the fucking pigs.

I'm not a student myself, but I think students in the US should start a campaign to have no police presence in any schools or education centres (junior school/high school/college/university).

[subcal]

They must have been out of bullets! what a pack of ****s, University, conform or suffer and fail!

[Tekun]

You are an idiot. When has the police ever tasered a white student? That's right, never.

I apologize for my ignorance
I did not know that u kept tabs on every white student that has and is attending UCLA :rolleyes:



Tekun: the reason the student claims its racially motivated is that the police within the library apparently when directly to him first when they came in to check IDs. He happens to be Persian, so he thought he was targetted for his appearance.

That I was not able to pickup, with bourgeois media u never get the whole story bro


First of all, cops are not workers of any type. They are the "armed bodies" that make up the capitalist state, not just another brand of "civil servant".

I agree, they are not workers in the sense that they sell their labor power and are solely reliant on the demand for labor
They have divorced themselves from their class, and now identify with their employer
I guess what I meant to say was that most come from the working class, and when they see wealthy college kids they are somewhat resentful and angry towards those who have more than them (especially these school cops, who usually work two jobs)


Second, there is a long history of tension at UCLA between Iranian students and white officials, going all the way back to the 1979 Revolution. Anti-Iranian racism is part of the "culture" at that school.

I did not know that, any links u can offer?


This was clearly a case of racial profiling, "Homeland Security" style. Tabatabainejad was leaving the library, was not bothering anyone and, up to the point when the cops assaulted him (laying hands on a person for no reason is assault, even if you're a cop), had not done anything wrong. And being that he was the only one stopped, it's pretty clear that the cops had him singled out for a session of "Papieren, bitte".

It is also clearly a case of police violence and terror. Tasering someone once is bad enough (and anyone who says they've been "subjected" to worse better start showing me the bullet holes, because, as someone who's been tasered by a police-issue -- let me repeat that: police-issue -- direct-stun taser, there's not much worse than that). Tasering someone over and over again (I counted seven times; the lawyer says five), and then demanding they stand up, is punitive and more than excessive. It's sadistic, and potentially deadly.

Like I mentioned earlier, I had not heard this side of the story
Good argument, I just changed my position