UCLA Officers Use Taser on ID-less Student

[Ghoulish Delight]

Poor guy was probably just sick of people looking at his ID and butchering his last name.

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Poor guy was probably just sick of people looking at his ID and butchering his last name.

Yeah,they might use the same picture from the DMV.

[DisneyFan25863]

This is REALLY disturbing to me...the police overacted way too much. My friends at UCLA are really disturbed by this, as well.

In the video, one of the students requesting an ID number is told that if he doesn't leave he would "get tased too"...

During the altercation between Tabatabainejad and the officers, bystanders can be heard in the video repeatedly asking the officers to stop and requesting their names and identification numbers. The video showed one officer responding to a student by threatening that the student would "get Tased too." At this point, the officer was still holding a Taser.

Such a threat of the use of force by a law enforcement officer in response to a request for a badge number is an "illegal assault," Eliasberg said.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by DisneyFan25863

This is REALLY disturbing to me...the police overacted way too much. My friends at UCLA are really disturbed by this, as well.

In the video, one of the students requesting an ID number is told that if he doesn't leave he would "get tased too"...

Yes, but it is illegal to interfere with a police officer and I think a good case can be made that's what the student questioning the officer (who was just a bystander) was doing.

[DisneyFan25863]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Yes, but it is illegal to interfere with a police officer and I think a good case can be made that's what the student questioning the officer (who was just a bystander) was doing.

If the police officer is standing around (which is what he was doing, keeping the crowd back), it is perfectly legal to demand his badge number and name. The student made no effort to interfere with his duty. The cop could have ignored him, but instead threatened to taser him.