A UCLA student didn't have his I.D. when entering the library's computer lab. As he turned to leave a police officer stopped him. After the students told the police not to touch him and that he was leaving, the student was tasered mutiple times. Other students saw this horrible incident and asked for the officers' information and badge numbers. However they were threatened by the officers to stay out of the situation. This reminded me of an episode of cops I saw where a man was unfairly tasered after cooperating. Police brutality is really a big issue in our country today, the notorious SFPD for example. Even though police is suppose to be the safekeepers of our community, not feared torturers. In fact, police are often found to commit the most extreme cases of violence and discrimination. This case is only one example of much police violence is out there. It just shows how we as human beings can be influences so easily by power, and how poorly shaped our community structure really is. Just because police officers are given the power of guns, badges, and tasers, it doesn't mean they have to use it to such extremity.
Pay attention to how many times they taser him, and then ask yourself why they are also telling him to stand up. Even the strongest men couldn't stand up after being tasered for only once.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP_M8s0GFEc
here's the article
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?ID=38958
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many times its just a power trip, a feeling as if you are someone - there is corruption on every level it can't be stopped.
"Even the strongest men couldn't stand up after being tasered for only once."
Actually, Rodney King was tasered several times and was still able to attack the officers.
And that video wasn't very good. It actually reminds me of the skewed way the Rodney King story was reported. The video is kind of blurry, and you can't even see what's going on between the officers and the kid ninety percent of the time. There's just a lot of orders coming the officers and the kid just cursing them out. Honestly, based on the video [because the article could not be found on the website] the kid deserved what he got. He was yelling and screaming from the beginning.