Officers use tazer on student

[Kralizec]

http://www.dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?ID=39010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs

The student wouldn't/couldn't show his ID. After being told to leave by the police, he did. One of the officers grabbed his arm, to wich he objected. The police did the natural thing and tazered him. The police kept telling him to stand up, and after refusing to cooperate again, tazered him some more.

wtf?!

Also, the student (who is of Iranian descent) will sue the university

[CrossLOPER]

Police tend to go a bit crazy at times. They could have just escorted him out.

[AntiochusIII]

I...don't really know what's going on in there.

The article only described the reactions -- and the video wasn't clear; was all that screaming the resulting of tazer? If yes, that's way messed up and we probably have another police brutality case here.

[Kralizec]

Here's another article on it: link

Officer: Stand up! Stand up! Stand up! Stand up! *BZZZZ* Stand up! Stand up!
Bystander: That's abuse of power!
Officer: Back off or we'll use the tazer on you too!

[CrossLOPER]

I...don't really know what's going on in there.

It opens with the student protesting the officers' grabbing him in an attempt to remove him. After being tasered once, he began screaming and declaring that he would have left on his own. After blaming the Patriot Act, he began berating the way in which the officers are conducting the situation and how they are abusing their power. At this point, the students overcame their initial shock, they began asking the officers for their info. The officers ignored these requests (focusing on the task at hand), and proceeded to threaten the student with another dose of shock. He refused to stand up and was shocked again, much harder and longer apparently as the screaming got louder.

At this point, the officers dragged him outside as the other students began closing in on the officers and pressing for their info. The police then proceeded to do the same routine of asking him to stand up and then shocking him for about five times. He is apparently cuffed after the first (in the hall). After the third, he begins to cry. After a little break, they do it one more time. At this point, he is probably unable to walk, but still able to yell and berate the officers in a much lower voice, which he does. Finally, the police apparently realize that they are being filmed and drag him out. All this time, the students are asking the officers to stop.

The video only lowers my opinion of these officers. I'm surprised they didn't knock him with their clubs.

[Kralizec]

edit: nevermind. Mods, please remove this post.

[Shahed]

Wow. Nuts.

[Rurik the Chieftain]

Yeah, I've heard about incidents like this. It's one of those power and responsibility issues with "non lethal" weapons. Once people are told something is non lethal, they start to jump to the conclusion that it's OK to use for non-life threatening situations and compliance. A lot of people want tasers banned for this reason.

[Ice]

I bet he'll listen to the officers from now on.

[CrossLOPER]

I bet he'll listen to the officers from now on.

Officers should not be feared by anyone who is not considered a criminal.

[Shahed]

Excessive force.

Did anyone notice the first person to speak up amongst all those 'men' was a woman ?

[CrossLOPER]

Excessive force.

Did anyone notice the first person to speak up amongst all those 'men' was a woman ?

The men were too busy filming the scene.

[Crazed Rabbit]

I think next time he will consider presenting his ID more promptly, and not resisting police every step of the way as they try to escort him out.

Crazed Rabbit

[AntiochusIII]

Thanks for the explanation. Now that I get a picture...wow.

If you're shocked by a tazer once -- may be you really can't stand up even if they try to force you to...

I think next time he will consider presenting his ID more promptly, and not resisting police every step of the way as they try to escort him out.

Or he might be very angry with the police and actually become a criminal!

I'm not sure how anyone can defend the police beyond "the kid has it coming" or "they're just doing their job" or other kinds of tip-toe-tap-dancing arguments when they tazer him after he's on the ground like that.

[Adrian II]

(..) plans to file a lawsuit against university police

Amazing. University police? Is that a separate police department or something? Man, you sure have some weird customs over there. Cattle prods, four-strong police patrols in libraries..

Is anyone surprised that if some dumbo in uniform uses a cattle prod on a student in a library, the result is a general disturbance, a lawsuit and a crapload of bad publicity?

[CrossLOPER]

Is anyone surprised that if some dumbo in uniform uses a cattle prod on a student in a library, the result is a general disturbance, a lawsuit and a crapload of bad publicity?

I'm sure someone will be "Absolutely shocked."

EDIT: Idiot.(Me not anyone else.)

[Pannonian]

I'm someone will be "Absolutely shocked."

You have to admit the police had an electrifying effect on the student.

[Adrian II]

I thik the original article said it best.

Meyerhoff Park was electric Friday afternoon when more than 400 students, faculty, staff, parents and community members gathered to protest (..)

[macsen rufus]

I'm surprised no-one complained about screaming in the library... that must have really upset the readers

[Husar]

Bah! They should've tthrown those monitors at the "officers", make some civil revolt and show them how to behave.
The motto of the german police is "your friend and helper" and that's what I expect from them as a citizen.
They are there to serve the public, not brutalize harmless students.

[CrossLOPER]

You have to admit the police had an electrifying effect on the student.

Not what I was going for, but I'll admit: You have to have been lightning quick to pick that one up.