You can watch the video on YouTube. It is almost seven minutes long, but it doesn’t seem that long.Â
There isn’t a lot to see, and not a lot to hear. But, I do have some questions.
Why did the police show up in such force to arrest this UCLA student? Why did the student fall on the ground and not get up when the police ordered him to stand up at least 27 times? Why did the other students just stand around and watch? Why did the student scream, “This is your F****** justice!” Why did the student filming the thing not shove his way to the front of the crowd to film? Don’t we live in a free country and isn’t just about anything that happens in public open to film and to recording of any type?Â
I can’t say one way or the other if the police did the right thing or not, but if what is reported is true, I seriously doubt I’d have waited as long as the police did to taser the guy.
Fox News states that the officer repeatedly asked the guy for identification which the student refused to show. The guy, when asked to leave the library, refused to do that. It was 11PM for crying out loud. It was late at night and the police have a long standing policy of checking ID in the library late at night to insure student safety. In my book, if a person cannot be polite and show ID and leave when asked, then he’s opening the door to this type of treatment… no matter what religion or nationality he is.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI’d like to see you get up after being tasered at least two times. I’d like to see you become one of the many minorities that are constantly discriminated against within this country. Is it so SHOCKING to think that perhaps the person being tasered is of a higher intelligence, to know about JUSTICE and the PATRIOT ACT? Is that so incredibly unbelievable? The ability to SPEAK is not the same as the ability to STAND when you are being TASERED. Also, Mostafa is his name, and he decided to prostest with non-violent means. Yet they continue to tase him while he is already on the ground? Is that fair to you? Hmm.
It is a simple matter to identify oneself. Even if he did not have his ID on him he could have used words to ID himself. Especially in today’s computerized world.
I don’t know the exact stats but thousands of citizens a day are stopped by officers and are not tazed. It is only the uncooperative people, as this person was, that find force used against them.
Simple rule. When asked for ID don’t get confrontational. Show your ID.
Wow, your comments are nothing short of scary.
The fact that you think a show of force (which has been proven lethal sometimes) is okay simply because a student SAT DOWN instead of moving? Just, wow.
So do you also think the fire hoses turned on the civil rights protestors was okay? Because they didn’t move when they were told to?
You clearly don’t know anything about this case. He agree to leave peaceably (AFTER he was racially profiled by being asked for ID when no one else was). But he wanted the officer’s badge numbers… which they failed to give.
Even the LAPD has punished these officers, agreeing that they were way beyond the scope of the law.
If we follow your logic, we may as well be china.
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