Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday November 20, 2006 @05:34PM from the police-buddhism-studies dept.

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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old news by legallyillegal · 2006-11-20 17:37 · Score: 0, Redundant

already a week old, and a week late, and a week after digg

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Re:Why He Should Not Have Been Tased by ildon · 2006-11-20 18:14 · Score: 0, Redundant

You're right, but no one's going to mod you up or listen to you, because the slashdot group think is "cops = bad".