Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube

dircha writes "As widely reported, an incident in which Iranian-American student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was tasered up to five times by UCLA police on Friday, has been captured by a fellow student using a video enabled cell phone and published to YouTube. From the Daily Bruin: 'At around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year Middle Eastern and North African studies and philosophy student, was asked to leave the library for failing to present his BruinCard during a random check. The 23-year-old student was hit with a Taser five times when he did not leave quickly and cooperatively upon being asked to do so.' In a story which has raised concerns of racial profiling, police brutality and the health risks of taser use, the ubiquity of video cell phone technology has given us a first hand record of an incident which might otherwise have been a he-said, she-said affair. While the publishing of the video to YouTube has given the issue compelling popular exposure beyond the immediate campus community."

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This is off-topic but necessary - While I agree that digg does often see articles in advance of slashdot. Digg is also notorious for reporting old news repeatedly. (Examples include the art lededev OLED keyboard which was again dugg quite high on the front page about a month ago for no other reason than a digg user having found the years old website.)

Another common digg foul-up is the habit for multiple article posts that make /. look tame. Something which even the digg operators are scornful of.

My personal favourite however is that the digg front page currently carries an article about one of thinkgeek's april fools products with the inclination that it is a legitimate product. (No you can not grow 1-up nintendo mario bros. mushrooms, it's not real, it's a joke, stop digging it.)

While I'm happy to use both sites and for both sites to co-exist (and they will for a very long time, no death-nells here.) Any incredible looking news I find on digg I will always google for supporting articles, as there is no filter for users who deliberately or not post incorrect/fake/joke articles.

On the flip side I personally find the comments in digg a useless montage of fanboyism, unadulerated one-word praises e.g. "cool", "awesome", "wow!!!111sin(90)" or just people who lead me to understand why 419 scamming still works.

+1 funny - not OT

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