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 lea...
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.
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.
The 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.
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The truth is they were checking everyone's ID, as they do every night after the public hours for the library are over. This whiney little cunt decided he didn't have to follow university policy, or the law, and in the end he got exactly what he deserved.
If I had acted exactly like him, and shown my ass to the cops, I would have been expelled from MY school on top of being arrested, and then disowned.
Of course I went to a real school with standards, and have upstanding parents.
You think this kind of "policing" stops terrorism or helps our security in ANY way? Bullshit! This is simply the beginnings of a police state.
The officer had it in his hands to keep the situation from getting out of control, but he chose to exert his "authority," instead. It's the, "I am the law -- you must obey" mindset that usually causes these problems.
The police in this country are out of control. Their job is to PROTECT the citizens of this country -- not CONTROL them.
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Stupid fuck. You resist the cops they ARE gonna fuck you up.
DUMBASS.
he got what he deserved
and that last police officer threatened to taser that student just for talking with them? Wow, talk about a power trip...
If I had acted exactly like him, and shown my ass to the cops, I would have been expelled from MY school on top of being arrested, and then disowned.
Of course I went to a real school with standards, and have upstanding parents.
The officer had it in his hands to keep the situation from getting out of control, but he chose to exert his "authority," instead. It's the, "I am the law -- you must obey" mindset that usually causes these problems.
The police in this country are out of control. Their job is to PROTECT the citizens of this country -- not CONTROL them.
Fucking pigs.
fuck what happened with the cops
try n find out wat he was SAYINGGG...
thats the important part
pay atention retards