<p>Sooooo. Has anyone heard about This</a> Incident? </p>
<p>Story here, too: <a href="http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=38958%5B/url%5D">http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=38958</a></p>
<p>whats the big deal? he resisted!</p>
<p>Looks like the student overreacted to being touched, and the officers really overreacted by tasering him repeatedly (the 21st century equivalent of a baton beating, I suppose).</p>
<p>Right. One tasering might've made sense if he was seriously resisting, but tasering multiple times and then THREATENING BYSTANDERS with tasering is slightly over the top. By a lot.</p>
<p>Also, the DB article says that the tasering didn't happen until he was already on his way out. So, if that's the case (unsurprisingly, there are lots of different stories going around from people who were there), he wasn't really resisting.</p>
<p>All this started because he didn't have his bruincard on him?</p>
<p>Way to go UCLA police.</p>
<p>well night powell is only supposed to be for UCLA students to study.</p>
<p>That still did seem a bit extreme for not having a Bruincard. However I really can't pass judgement. Unless you were actually there to witness what happened, it's had to know just how much, if at all, he resisted.</p>
<p>well im not saying if what was done was right or wrong since like you said, i wasnt there to witness it.</p>
<p>but being asked to leave for not having a BC during night powell is reasonable.</p>
<p>my suitemate witnessed the whole thing and told me that the guy was being a jerk but didn't deserve the taser</p>
<p>im positive that police don't just use a stun gun for failing to produce your bruincard. That guy must have done something stupid like resist leaving or somethin. Plus, its not like he was hospitalized or anything. In fact, he walked out.</p>
<p>proooofiling</p>
<p>^I'm not sure I'd be so fast to jump on to the profiling bus. And I agree if they were to have stun the guy for failing to produce his Bruincard then there is a serious problem. Again the qeuestion returns to what happened inbetween the request for the Bruincard and the taser.</p>
<p>he got served.</p>
<p>I wonder if there will be any big protests. I saw the video, it looks pretty excessive.</p>
<p>Nothing would've happened if the student had simply got up and left at the very beginning. Based on what I read in the articles, he got what he deserved.</p>
<p>if the claim that he got tasered five times is true...then (based on the video) the police went way overboard</p>
<p>cruel and unusual punishment aside, you've gotta admit the guy was a complete idiot for not following the police officer's instructions.</p>
<p>agreed...but i still think the whole situation could've been handled better...especially when that one student cried out against the tasering and was, in turn, taser-threatened by the officer (makes it seem like they were all too taser happy)</p>
<p>that was funny. disobey the police officer on a reasonable request and call it an abuse of power. taser more pls</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>10chars</p>