"Act like a human being and you'll be treated like one." -- UCLA Library Tasering
YouTube video of a UCLA student being tasered by campus cops in library.
The guys with the uniforms on ordered the student to "stand up" or "get up", by our count, 107 times in 6:53.
107 times.
107 times asking a pretty average sized 23 year old to "get up."
Did they not think to simply pick up the guy and walk him out? The thing was escalating with the other students attracted to the commotion. The guards apparently panicked, repeatedly told the guy to "get up", then tasered him several times. Could they not cuff him and carry him out of the building if they felt the situation warranted? There were a slew of the security guards there. Surely three of them could have done the job.
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MSNBC story about the incident.
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Here is just a sampling from the comments posted on YouTube re the video. These are as disturbing as the abuse itself: people, presumably young people, who blame the victim in this obvious case of violent abuse of power. --
blitzenfrogs --
he deserved it...welcome to the modern world jackass...just show your ID and the police will check IDs so people do not blow you up.
mborrett --
When you act like a jackass, you get treated like a jackass. If he would have done what the CSOs asked him to do, the police would not even have had to respond. Act like a human being and you'll be treated like one!
bebotemx --
why wouldnt he stand up
its not that hard, how stupid is this moron
SpaceDune --
Wake up people being a cop is not easy and the fact is they have ever right to taze the bastard... All you have to do is freakin listen, and than if they taze and beat you... you can do something but if your a freakin moron like he is you have nothing. Camera man... stop hiding, you have every legal right to tape. Don't go duckign everywhere. I would be right up there getting close ups to show what a dumbass he is.
phobal --
Cops have two options: use soft open hand restraints and put both themselves and the subject at risk even though the subject shows highly resistive behavior ("DON'T TOUCH ME!") resulting in the subject getting hurt and suing the police, or they can stand out of harms way and tase the subject until he gets compliant. Sorry, how many times did they ask him to be compliant ?
BiggBaddBobb --
Scream Haji Baba scream you Iranian fuckhead.
dkc4c --
Before the guy was getting tasered, he was basically in the middle of the computer lab screaming his lungs out at the police. What would you have done in that situation? He got tasered because he was making a scene and disobeying a police officer, and he got tasered again because he continued to refuse to cooperative.
Get real, police don't taser people just to get some jollies out of it.
soulcatch --
I listened to the video several times to be sure I heard it correctly. He was obviously NOT leaving peacefully. The police said several times stand up prior to the first tazzing. He was obviously on the ground and disobeying them. Had he simply cooperated with the rules the whole situation would have quickly AND peacefully been resolved. He chose not to obey and AFTER repeated requests to comply were issued he was tazzed. Ihe was trying to incite dissent and blatently resisting arrest.
clearlyunseen --
that guy totally deserved it, these cops did the right thing. Some stupid over zealous college student trying to be a martyr. And then the stupid college students getting swept in the bullshit, fucking sheeple.
frankie4fingars --
Umm, it is not abuse, he fricken tells the officers to Fuck off.... come on. Only people who have no respect for authority would think it is appropriate to tell law enforcement officers to fuck off when they are told a direct thing.
Secondly they were threatened to be tazed too when they were approaching the scene and trying to but themselves into the ordeal when they shouldn't have. They should have let the officers do their job.
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A week or so ago there was a big shitstorm about this video, but to Apartment404's eyes there is a lot of ambiguity in the 19 seconds. No way to tell what preceded the punching, though the guy was under control at that point. Had he really been resisting arrest just prior to the video? Cops in LA have just about an impossible job, and their adrenaline was most likely sky high. The cop was clearly wrong for punching the guy, who at that point was defenseless. But it's impossible to make any further judgements about the incident.
The 6:53 video of the campus cops abusing the UCLA student leaves little room for doubt. The security officers were clearly in over their collective heads, and abused their power repeatedly. They used the phrase "get up" or "stand up" roughly 107 times. They tasered the kid several times. And according to one witness, threatened to taser onlookers. Not much ambiguity there.
The guys with the uniforms on ordered the student to "stand up" or "get up", by our count, 107 times in 6:53.
107 times.
107 times asking a pretty average sized 23 year old to "get up."
Did they not think to simply pick up the guy and walk him out? The thing was escalating with the other students attracted to the commotion. The guards apparently panicked, repeatedly told the guy to "get up", then tasered him several times. Could they not cuff him and carry him out of the building if they felt the situation warranted? There were a slew of the security guards there. Surely three of them could have done the job.
=================================
MSNBC story about the incident.
=================================
Here is just a sampling from the comments posted on YouTube re the video. These are as disturbing as the abuse itself: people, presumably young people, who blame the victim in this obvious case of violent abuse of power. --
blitzenfrogs --
he deserved it...welcome to the modern world jackass...just show your ID and the police will check IDs so people do not blow you up.
mborrett --
When you act like a jackass, you get treated like a jackass. If he would have done what the CSOs asked him to do, the police would not even have had to respond. Act like a human being and you'll be treated like one!
bebotemx --
why wouldnt he stand up
its not that hard, how stupid is this moron
SpaceDune --
Wake up people being a cop is not easy and the fact is they have ever right to taze the bastard... All you have to do is freakin listen, and than if they taze and beat you... you can do something but if your a freakin moron like he is you have nothing. Camera man... stop hiding, you have every legal right to tape. Don't go duckign everywhere. I would be right up there getting close ups to show what a dumbass he is.
phobal --
Cops have two options: use soft open hand restraints and put both themselves and the subject at risk even though the subject shows highly resistive behavior ("DON'T TOUCH ME!") resulting in the subject getting hurt and suing the police, or they can stand out of harms way and tase the subject until he gets compliant. Sorry, how many times did they ask him to be compliant ?
BiggBaddBobb --
Scream Haji Baba scream you Iranian fuckhead.
dkc4c --
Before the guy was getting tasered, he was basically in the middle of the computer lab screaming his lungs out at the police. What would you have done in that situation? He got tasered because he was making a scene and disobeying a police officer, and he got tasered again because he continued to refuse to cooperative.
Get real, police don't taser people just to get some jollies out of it.
soulcatch --
I listened to the video several times to be sure I heard it correctly. He was obviously NOT leaving peacefully. The police said several times stand up prior to the first tazzing. He was obviously on the ground and disobeying them. Had he simply cooperated with the rules the whole situation would have quickly AND peacefully been resolved. He chose not to obey and AFTER repeated requests to comply were issued he was tazzed. Ihe was trying to incite dissent and blatently resisting arrest.
clearlyunseen --
that guy totally deserved it, these cops did the right thing. Some stupid over zealous college student trying to be a martyr. And then the stupid college students getting swept in the bullshit, fucking sheeple.
frankie4fingars --
Umm, it is not abuse, he fricken tells the officers to Fuck off.... come on. Only people who have no respect for authority would think it is appropriate to tell law enforcement officers to fuck off when they are told a direct thing.
Secondly they were threatened to be tazed too when they were approaching the scene and trying to but themselves into the ordeal when they shouldn't have. They should have let the officers do their job.
=============================
A week or so ago there was a big shitstorm about this video, but to Apartment404's eyes there is a lot of ambiguity in the 19 seconds. No way to tell what preceded the punching, though the guy was under control at that point. Had he really been resisting arrest just prior to the video? Cops in LA have just about an impossible job, and their adrenaline was most likely sky high. The cop was clearly wrong for punching the guy, who at that point was defenseless. But it's impossible to make any further judgements about the incident.
The 6:53 video of the campus cops abusing the UCLA student leaves little room for doubt. The security officers were clearly in over their collective heads, and abused their power repeatedly. They used the phrase "get up" or "stand up" roughly 107 times. They tasered the kid several times. And according to one witness, threatened to taser onlookers. Not much ambiguity there.
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