Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
lol, what lesson? People spew misconceptions, untruths and ignorance everyday on this board that don't get the finger-waving reply from our less-than-fully-informed moderators.
Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
^ add to that justifications, deflections, tangents and baseless comparisons.
I think it says less about moderators who are not expected to be subject matter experts of the forums they moderate, and more about the mind set of certain member.
Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
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Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
More News…
UCLA student now claims racial profiling the reason for he was singled out in the random ID check and the reason police tazered him…
I think even Iran’s presdient might get involved in this.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/11/17/national/a061219S88.DTL
A student who was shocked by a campus police officer’s Taser gun after he refused to show ID at a UCLA library thought he was being singled out by the officer because of his Middle Eastern appearance, his lawyer said.
Attorney Stephen Yagman said he plans to file a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of the U.S.-born student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad.
Tabatabainejad, 23, was shocked Tuesday night after arguing with a campus police officer who was conducting a routine check of student IDs at the University of California, Los Angeles Powell Library computer lab.
Yagman said his client declined to show his school ID because he thought he was being targeted for his appearance. His family is of Iranian descent.
Police have said Tabatabainejad encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, and when a crowd gathered, the officer used the stun gun on him.
Yagman disputed that, saying Tabatabainejad started yelling to draw attention after the police officer pulled out the Taser.
Tabatabainejad was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police officer and later released on his own recognizance.
The incident, recorded on another student’s camera phone, showed Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. It was the third time in a month in which police behavior in the city was criticized after amateur video surfaced.
UCLA’s interim chancellor, Norman Abrams, urged the public to withhold judgment while the campus police department investigates.
Several civil rights organizations, including Amnesty International and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, have called for an independent review.
Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
And you chose to believe what some dumb teenage idiot said in the youtube comments? There were about 50-60 witnesess to this event and none of them said that they guy thretened the police or said he was a suicide bomber. The police's official story doesnt match with what the witnesses have said. Usually police dont do their dirty work infront of so many witnesess but in this case they are screwed. Underpaid, undertrained, implusive, yah prolly.
Lawsuit is coming up. CAIR and ACLU are already involved.
Ive never heayd of the term "tehrangeles", Little Tehran yes. There is a huge iranian-american community around the campus in westwood, brentwood, West LA and beverly hills area and not all of them are muslim. A lot of them are jewish and they are very connected not to mention some fine persian cuisine in all of california.
Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
^^ I already said i was wrong for the above comments and as for Los Angeles being labeleld Tehrangeles, I have heard that a lot from my friends in La
Outside Iran, the largest concentration of Iranians are Los Angeles with over 1 million Iraniand and Tel Aviv with around 500,000 or so…
1 in 13 people in LA are of Iranian descent
Re: ranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
yes i dont dispute the numbers, most of them are concentrated in those areas that i mentioned. tehrangeles i still havent heard used officially for the area.
Re: Iranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
This is despicable... Hope those cops are fired...
Re: Iranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN
UCLA community gathers to protest Taser incident, campus violence
Protesters demand additional investigation be made into officers’ actions by an outside organization with help of students
By Julia Erlandson and Anthony Pesce
DAILY BRUIN SENIOR STAFF
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Meyerhoff Park was electric Friday afternoon when more than 400 students, faculty, staff, parents and community members gathered to protest the use of a Taser multiple times on a UCLA student in Powell Library on Tuesday night.
Student leaders stood on the steps of Kerckhoff Hall, leading the crowd in chants that included “One, two, three, don’t Taser me,” and “U-C-P-D, you disgust me.” After about an hour, students began marching to the university police station, where about 200 students gathered in front of the building.
More than 50 student organizations sponsored the rally, during which students demanded that an independent investigation be conducted into the officers’ actions.
According to a statement released Wednesday by UCPD, the incident in which Mostafa Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser several times for failing to produce his BruinCard or leave the library upon request is currently under internal review.
But students at the rally said they wanted an additional investigation to be conducted by an outside organization, adding that they wanted students to be involved with the investigation as well.
“The chancellor should appoint students who will be able to make sure the investigation is transparent,” said Combiz Abdolrahimi, chairman of the National Iranian-American Council at UCLA, which helped organize the event. “We’re also calling for a temporary suspension of the officers.”
Affad Shaikh, civil rights coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, also demanded to be provided with UCPD’s policies governing the use of Taser guns.
“Something went wrong and the community demands some answers,” he said.
At a separate press conference later in the afternoon, Police Chief Karl Ross announced that UCPD is planning to conduct an independent investigation into the incident, in addition to their internal investigation.
During the same press conference, Interim Chancellor Norman Abrams said a number of eyewitnesses have already come forward to participate in the investigation.
“I am confident that the review process that is being undertaken will allow us to reach a fair, appropriate and just conclusion,” Abrams said.
Several eyewitnesses also spoke to the crowd during the rally, though some declined to give their names.
UCPD has maintained that the UCPD officers could not have known at the time that the student was not a threat; Ross said the officers used force because they felt they were in danger.
But some witnesses said the response seemed to be inappropriate for the situation.
“I personally couldn’t sleep that night,” one speaker said. “This was majorly excessive. There was no reason for (police) to do this once they had complete control of the situation.”
Organizers repeatedly stressed that the rally was in response to violence on campus in general.
“These police were way out of bounds,” said Samer Araabi, a general representative on the Undergraduate Students Association Council. “Do you feel protected by the police?”
The crowd roared back with a resounding “No.”
After the rally was over, just before 1 p.m., protesters began marching to UCPD’s station on Westwood Boulevard, though organizers had said at the beginning of the rally that they had no plans to do so.
Organizers asked the crowd to remain peaceful as they marched, still chanting, to the station.
“Let’s stay nonviolent, because we are marching against violence,” said Sabiha Ameen, president of the Muslim Students Association and a rally organizer.
Protesters gathered on UCPD’s front lawn, chanting that they wanted to see the chief of police.
By the time students arrived at the station, the front door of the station was locked and most of the lights downstairs were turned off. Berky Nelson, director of the UCLA Center for Student Programming, said the chief of police was not available to speak with protesters because he was meeting with the chancellor.
As a Los Angeles Police Department helicopter circled briefly overhead, the crowd refused to disperse.
“Hell no, we won’t go,” they chanted.
After students had been at the station for over 45 minutes, they left voluntarily.
Nelson said police would listen to student input.
“There will be student input,” he said. “Their voice was heard, and they were received with all due respect.”
Though the crowd was overwhelmingly opposed to the police officers’ actions, a few students in attendance questioned the student’s actions as well.
“If you’ve been told to leave, you need to comply,” said Christo Rose, a fourth-year computer science student. “(Police) have no choice but to respond.”
But Rose added that he believes the use of force in the situation was excessive.
UCLA orders outside probe of Taser arrest
The move comes hours after a protest march by more than 200 students.
By Richard Winton, Rong-Gong Lin II and Charles Proctor, Times Staff Writers
November 18, 2006
Hoping to calm the furor created when UCLA police used a Taser to subdue a student studying in Powell Library, the university’s acting chancellor announced Friday that a veteran Los Angeles law enforcement watchdog would head up an independent investigation of the incident.
Norman Abrams said he ordered the probe after the university received numerous calls and e-mails from parents and alumni raising concerns about the officers’ actions during the videotaped Tuesday night arrest, which has been widely seen on TV news and the YouTube website.