Comments on: UCLA Student Tazed By LAPD

By: One_and_only

One_and_only — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:12:16 +0000

Thats bull shit. That tazed him for no reason. All he was trying to do is ask why he was getting arrested for. My parent use to be cops, they have to tell u why your getting arreasted

By: Albert

Albert — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:30:20 +0000

we should stand against these outrageous actions! Let’s write/complain directly to the: chancellor@ucla.edu.

He should fire those policemen. You talk and you get tazed!??!?!? Well, this is not a democracy.

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:48:04 +0000

Lucius: your right about the taser details, but 6 times is pretty excessive and I think after the 3rd time his motor skills were pretty much useless!

By: Lucius

Lucius — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:17:00 +0000

Marzouq: It’s not voltage that is shot into a person being tased, it is amperage. Volts are not what shock you, its the amps. The setting the campus police has on the tasers was Drive setting, just enough to lock motor function for a short amount of time.

While I do believe there was excessive abuse, this fellow had plenty of time and ability to cooperate.

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:42:58 +0000

DN: very true!

By: Digital Nomad

Digital Nomad — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:31:53 +0000

Agreed I guess I was trying to “help” Justin communicate his message the right way. And saving tax payer’s money is really the last priority when police brutality is the issue.

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 10:42:51 +0000

BDegan: Campus police on state owned universities are the regular police so I are real police, such as the LAPD. But I know what you mean regarding excessive force.

DN: I know what Justin meant, but he went about it the wrong way. We shall see how the cops operate after this incident its like they wouldnt stop tazing him and he couldnt really resist compared how many cops there were.

By: Digital Nomad

Digital Nomad — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:59:42 +0000

I guess Justin is trying to say that the tax payer’s money will go to the kid if he wins, and therefore we should WANT him to not win, to save our money for “better” things. But its the responsibility of the cops, who ALSO get paid with our tax payer’s money, to ensure that situations like this don’t happen. The kid was on his way out, apparently. There was no reason to taze him to begin with, and thus give him something to sue for. If we want to preserve our tax payer’s money, maybe we should have law enforcement personnel who don’t indulge in sheer brutality.

By: BDegan

BDegan — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:52:13 +0000

I feel that i should clarify. It was not LAPD but rather campus police. Either ways it is still a abuse of power to taze some one to that extreme when they are saying they have a medical condition.

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:41:36 +0000

Justin: If you werent there I dont think you could be a true judge no matter what. And getting zapped 6 times while posing no real threat, and already in hand cuffs Im sorry thats extremely excessive force for no real reason. The guy is not even half the size of these cops, thing is he wasnt guilty of any crime. What makes you think this kid is going on tax payer dollars, he could be paying out of pocket, secondly if he pays taxes, and his family pays taxes then he is entitled to the education. He had no cause to fight for in the first place, but being abused by a cop gave him a reason.