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**KuevDulin** · 11-23-2006, 07:28 PM

For your review, regarding the November 14, 2006 tasing of UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad ...

The vid of the incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JGlvEcPmug

Statement from UCLA Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams (November 15): http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7513

A November 15 press release of the police officers' version (pdf) : http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/zippdf...2011-15-06.pdf

Some eye-opening background on the UCLA Police Officer who tased the student: http://www.laist.com/archives/2006/1...rs_at_ucla.php
Some "highlights" of this cops' history:

fired from the infamous Long Beach PD before hired at UCLA
accused of using his nightstick to choke a fratboy (resulted in a three month suspension).
shot a seemingly mentally incompetent homeless man who was trepsassing on campus (it appears this incident is what led UCLA to invest in tasers as an alternative to guns)

UCLA Campus newspaper coverage (The Daily Bruin, November 16): http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960

Some info from the Bruin article:

Tabatabainejad was also stunned with the Taser when he was already handcuffed, said Carlos Zaragoza, a third-year English and history student who witnessed the incident.
During the altercation between Tabatabainejad and the officers, bystanders can be heard in the video repeatedly asking the officers to stop and requesting their names and identification numbers. The video showed one officer responding to a student by threatening that the student would "get Tased too." At this point, the officer was still holding a Taser.

Such a threat of the use of force by a law enforcement officer in response to a request for a badge number is an "illegal assault," Eliasberg said.

"It is absolutely illegal to threaten anyone who asks for a badge," that's assault," he said.

Neither the video footage nor eyewitness accounts of the events confirmed that Tabatabainejad encouraged resistance, and he repeatedly told the officers he was not fighting and would leave.

UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council calls for suspension of officers (Bruin, November 22): http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=39084

11-23-2006, 07:28 PM	#16
KuevDulin Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 362 Senior Member	*For your review, regarding the November 14, 2006 tasing of UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad ...* The vid of the incident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JGlvEcPmug Statement from UCLA Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams (November 15): http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7513 A November 15 press release of the police officers' version (pdf) : http://www.ucpd.ucla.edu/ucpd/zippdf...2011-15-06.pdf Some eye-opening background on the UCLA Police Officer who tased the student: http://www.laist.com/archives/2006/1...rs_at_ucla.php Some "highlights" of this cops' history: fired from the infamous Long Beach PD before hired at UCLA accused of using his nightstick to choke a fratboy (resulted in a three month suspension). shot a seemingly mentally incompetent homeless man who was trepsassing on campus (it appears this incident is what led UCLA to invest in tasers as an alternative to guns) UCLA Campus newspaper coverage (The Daily Bruin, November 16): http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960 *Some info from the Bruin* article: Tabatabainejad was also stunned with the Taser when he was already handcuffed, said Carlos Zaragoza, a third-year English and history student who witnessed the incident. During the altercation between Tabatabainejad and the officers, bystanders can be heard in the video repeatedly asking the officers to stop and requesting their names and identification numbers. The video showed one officer responding to a student by threatening that the student would "get Tased too." At this point, the officer was still holding a Taser. Such a threat of the use of force by a law enforcement officer in response to a request for a badge number is an "illegal assault," Eliasberg said. "It is absolutely illegal to threaten anyone who asks for a badge," that's assault," he said. Neither the video footage nor eyewitness accounts of the events confirmed that Tabatabainejad encouraged resistance, and he repeatedly told the officers he was not fighting and would leave. UCLA Undergraduate Students Association Council calls for suspension of officers** (Bruin, November 22): http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=39084
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