Thursday
Nov162006
UCLA Taser (Brutality/Use)


While it's kind of irrelevant to HackCollege.com, this story hits a little close to home, mostly because UCLA is right up the street from LMU.
On Tuesday night, a student was tased in the library by the UCPD, UCLA's on-campus police. The craziest part is that another student captured everything on video and YouTube'd it.
Decide for yourself what to make of all of this.
Link:
Daily Bruin Article
Reader Comments (3)
Statement from UCLA Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams About Incident at Powell Library:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7513
[...] Just under two weeks after Kelly’s report on a UCLA student being tasered, I read today that an 11-year-old sixth grader was tasered twice this past Wednesday at Jonesboro Middle School in Georgia. The name of the middle school may not spark interest, but the age of the boy certainly caught mine. [...]
[...] It’s not on the scale of the UCLA Tasing that happened last October, but it’s still disgusting. And it’s a good read. [...]