Well it's an interesting situation on what to do. First off I guess we don't really know what went on and what was said before the video was shot or what they thought that this guy did that they came after him in the first place. Maybe he deserved a good taser in the ass.

Second is that isn't exactly the brightest thing for cops to do when others are standing around and outright protesting the situation. I'm honestly surprised that everyone didn't gang together and take on those cops. Then they would have really had their hands full. I have to wonder why they just didn't drag his ass. It's interesting that the world is now all caught on tape. Nothing anyone does is going to be their own anymore. It's good for evidence review.

yes, i heard of it back then. it was all over the news. there were a few other 'police brutality' things that popped up around the same time too.

According to the articles and stuff, he wouldn't show someone his student card, so they went and got campus police, who tasered him when he didn't move fast enough, and then again when he *couldn't* move fast enough, and then again for 'disobeying'. And in the video you can clearly hear one of the cops threatening another student with the taser if he didn't leave.

But yeah...that's just one interpretation of it, and I wasn't there so I can't rightly say. It's one thing to taser someone who's attacking you, or violently resisting arrest etc. But by all the students' accounts, he was just doing a paper in the library - that's hardly violent. There are innumerable ways to remove someone from a room who apparently didn't want to go that don't involve incapacitating someone and then incapacitating them again because they were incapacitated and couldn't hop to your commands.

It's L.A. The stereotype seems to be that people only become cops in L.A. to be power hungry assholes. Maybe the campus police are just biding their time till they can get onto the real force and do some real damage. At any rate, they didn't seem to be particularly interested in busting stereotypes in this case.

So what happened to the cops? Did they go to jail or at least lose their jobs or what? Someone ought to taser them, the bastards

Aye to that!

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