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**Theorsell** · 11-23-2006, 06:47 PM

UCLA cops obviously need to chill.

HOWEVER:
- It seems to me that the REAL insanity is campus cops checking IDs in teh first place...Why? What's the 'probable cause'? A student union is also not a secure area, it is a 'commons', possible the worst place you can define as a secure area.

- GIVEN that the cop was presumably properly authorized to eject people without ID from the union, in refusing to leave the chap in question was disobeying a police order and interfering with police duties by inciting protest which clearly warrants use of less-than-lethal force. In my, obviously old fashioned book, if a cop reasonably requests you to 'move along', you do it. Now. You can then protest the university's stupid rule.

11-23-2006, 06:47 PM	#15
Theorsell Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 512 Senior Member	UCLA cops obviously need to chill. HOWEVER: - It seems to me that the REAL insanity is campus cops checking IDs in teh first place...Why? What's the 'probable cause'? A student union is also not a secure area, it is a 'commons', possible the worst place you can define as a secure area. - GIVEN that the cop was presumably properly authorized to eject people without ID from the union, in refusing to leave the chap in question was disobeying a police order and interfering with police duties by inciting protest which clearly warrants use of less-than-lethal force. In my, obviously old fashioned book, if a cop reasonably requests you to 'move along', you do it. Now. You can then protest the university's stupid rule.
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