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Nov. 18th, 2006 12:42 pmFootage of UCLA student being tazered by police in campus library on 11/14 around 11:30pm
Current mood: contemplative
Category: News and Politics
This is so messed up
LOS ANGELES - A camera phone captured a UCLA student being shot with a stun gun by a police officer after he allegedly refused repeated requests to show his student identification and would not leave a campus library, university police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Tuesday after police did a routine check of student ID at the Powell Library computer lab.
"This is a long-standing library policy to ensure the safety of students during the late-night hours," said UCLA Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.
KiKi: She said police tried to escort Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library after he refused to provide ID and would not leave.
Tabatabainejad, who was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer, was later released on his own recognizance.
"As the officers attempted to escort him out, he went limp and continued to refuse to cooperate with officers or leave the building," Greenstein said.
Instead, Greenstein said, Tabatabainejad encouraged others at the library to join his resistance. When a crowd began to gather the police used the stun gun on him.
KiKi: he arrest was captured on another student's camera phone and showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. The video also showed the student shouting, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your ... abuse of power," according to the campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin.
There is no phone listing for Tabatabainejad and neither he nor his attorney could be located for comment.
KiKi: For one...
Matt <3: hmmm
KiKi: He was saying he'd leave
Matt <3: not sure what to make of it
KiKi: he wasn't saying he wouldn't leave
KiKi: maybe he didn't have his ID with him
KiKi: but he is an actual student
KiKi: For two
KiKi: How the hell is he going to get up when he's being shot with a taser and in pain
Matt <3: why is he in Library without ID
KiKi: Maybe he lives on campus and just didn't happen to have it with him
KiKi: it still doesn't justify being tasered
KiKi: maybe that's why he said he'd leave when they asked for his ID
Current mood: contemplative
Category: News and Politics
This is so messed up
LOS ANGELES - A camera phone captured a UCLA student being shot with a stun gun by a police officer after he allegedly refused repeated requests to show his student identification and would not leave a campus library, university police said Wednesday.
The incident occurred about 11 p.m. Tuesday after police did a routine check of student ID at the Powell Library computer lab.
"This is a long-standing library policy to ensure the safety of students during the late-night hours," said UCLA Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.
KiKi: She said police tried to escort Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library after he refused to provide ID and would not leave.
Tabatabainejad, who was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer, was later released on his own recognizance.
"As the officers attempted to escort him out, he went limp and continued to refuse to cooperate with officers or leave the building," Greenstein said.
Instead, Greenstein said, Tabatabainejad encouraged others at the library to join his resistance. When a crowd began to gather the police used the stun gun on him.
KiKi: he arrest was captured on another student's camera phone and showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. The video also showed the student shouting, "Here's your Patriot Act, here's your ... abuse of power," according to the campus newspaper, the Daily Bruin.
There is no phone listing for Tabatabainejad and neither he nor his attorney could be located for comment.
KiKi: For one...
Matt <3: hmmm
KiKi: He was saying he'd leave
Matt <3: not sure what to make of it
KiKi: he wasn't saying he wouldn't leave
KiKi: maybe he didn't have his ID with him
KiKi: but he is an actual student
KiKi: For two
KiKi: How the hell is he going to get up when he's being shot with a taser and in pain
Matt <3: why is he in Library without ID
KiKi: Maybe he lives on campus and just didn't happen to have it with him
KiKi: it still doesn't justify being tasered
KiKi: maybe that's why he said he'd leave when they asked for his ID
