UCLA Student Gets Tazered

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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[STUNTS1516]

Jeez someone taze these bastards and see how quickly they can stand up after it!

[ontariodrome]

Fucking stupid cops.......

[gurper707]

Grammar, the last bastions of fags who know they are fags

[bokumarc]

What Year Was This Video?

[Taxminia0311]

Cry you little bitch, who's your fucking daddy lolo tazer that bad ass.lmao

[mrmitch]

You're*

[Cristian Paez]

Go Fuck Yourself. If i have an opinion i have the right to type it and speak it. And if i want to type stuff i will. SO GO FUCK YOURSELF.

[gurper707]

So I guess you don't dispute my comment then eh? I saw this video before you commented on it like a retard. WHERE YOU BEEN?

[Cristian Paez]

This was 6 months ago. Where've you've been?!

[gurper707]

The fifth amendment and the right to not ID yourself is fundamental here in the US. Even though he was on private property he SHOULD still have that right. Bringing cops INTO the school is just being used to get us used to PIGS harassing us. They could implement an electronic system that would be fool proof and CHEAPER FOR THE LOCALE. Put the keyboard down YOU FUCKIN RETARD wannabe PIG.

[gurper707]

Your a dumbass twat. How the fuck would you get a bio like that from this video anyway?? Cuz you're an evil pig or a paid shill. Go to hell, like you know you will, faggot.

[kiloxpau]

Those kids are stupid. the cops were doing their job right