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    (..) 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?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adrian II
    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."

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    Quote Originally Posted by CrossLOPER
    I'm someone will be "Absolutely shocked."
    You have to admit the police had an electrifying effect on the student.

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    I thik the original article said it best.
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    I'm surprised no-one complained about screaming in the library... that must have really upset the readers
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    Sounds like a case of everybody being retarded. If the student had just done what he should right away nothing would have happened. At the same time the university police shouldn't have tazed him. It's not as if the officers were threatened in any way or that the guy was a threat to the other students, he was merely non compliant. If anything they should have just dragged him out, they certainly look like they could have just dragged him out instead of insisting he standup after being tazed.

    Glad the others students started asking for badge numbers and information right away. Not sure how University police have police power or anything but I'm surprised someone didn't call the real police on them. The other students being threatened by campus security who just abused a student with a tazer is definate grounds for calling LAPD.

    I wonder how safe it is to use tazers in a computer lab, I know if all my work disappeared because they caused a short or something I'd be pissed.

    lol @ "Here's your patriot act," I would never shout something like that when being dragged out of a computer lab, does he think he's being dragged out for writing to terrorists via the internet or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by spmetla
    Not sure how University police have police power or anything but I'm surprised someone didn't call the real police on them.
    I believe they were the real police, just stationed on campus.
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    Quote Originally Posted by spmetla
    I wonder how safe it is to use tazers in a computer lab, I know if all my work disappeared because they caused a short or something I'd be pissed.
    Nevermind that they're potentially lethal...
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    Quote Originally Posted by spmetla
    Not sure how University police have police power or anything but I'm surprised someone didn't call the real police on them. The other students being threatened by campus security who just abused a student with a tazer is definate grounds for calling LAPD.
    In my experience, campus police are real cops, their jurisdiction is the campus grounds. They will work with city/county police as the circumstances dictate, but have full authority on campus.

    As for other students calling the LAPD, not so sure that would be a good idea...
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    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.


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    Well, there's a $1,000,000,000,000 lawsuit in the making.

    Both sides were wrong, though obviously one side more then the other. When grabbed by the cops, you don't fight back. They'll tazer/beat/club/mace/shoot you into submission as sure as night follows day. It's their raison d'etre. You fight back later after you've been released.

    On the other hand, if the guy is cuffed and already been electrified and won't stand up, then you secure his feet with cuffs or quick ties and carry him out, you don't torture a non-threatening suspect him into compliance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian
    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.
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