Got this from Email (UCLA Student Tasered by UCPD Police)

Got this from email, I'm really outrageous about this incident, this is totally an abuse of power.  If they can taser a student because he didn't leave immediatly due to without a student pass, then I think the repeat of the Kansas state incident in the 70's is waiting to be happen again.

Me and alot of our fellow student at our university has planned a 10 minute walk out at our University next Monday @ 12 noon, in support of the abused student in UCLA, I hope that All of you who study in the US (or even around the world) support this action, and let our government knows that they cannot do whatever they want (abusing their police power), and let our politician knows that if they don't act, they will definite lose our vote @ the next elections...

Please spread around this message.

(Video of the incident)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE&eurl=

(Community response from UCLA)
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960


UCLA Student Tasered by UCPD Police

THE INCIDENT:

http://dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=38958

[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers
Incident occured around 11:30 p.m. in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab

UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody.

No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could be reached.

At around 11:30 p.m., CSOs asked a male student using a computer in the back of the room to leave when he was unable to produce a BruinCard during a random check. The student did not exit the building immediately.

The CSOs left, returning minutes later, and police officers arrived to escort the student out. By this time the student had begun to walk toward the door with his backpack when an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.

The student began to yell "get off me," repeating himself several times.

It was at this point that the officers shot the student with a Taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain. The student also told the officers he had a medical condition.

UCPD officers confirmed that the man involved in the incident was a student, but did not give a name or any additional information about his identity.

Video shot from a student's camera phone captured the student yelling, "Here's your Patriot Act, h! ere's yo ur fucking abuse of power," while he struggled with the officers.

As the student was screaming, UCPD officers repeatedly told him to stand up and said "stop fighting us." The student did not stand up as the officers requested and they shot him with the Taser at least once more.

"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," said David Remesnitsky, a 2006 UCLA alumnus who witnessed the incident.

As the student and the officers were struggling, bystanders repeatedly asked the police officers to stop, and at one point officers told the gathered crowd to stand back and threatened to use a Taser on anyone who got too close.

Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.

Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed.

"It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did."

Immediately after the incident, several students began to contact local news outlets, informing them of the incident, and Remesnitsky wrote an e-mail to Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams.