UCLA Student Tasered by Police in Library

Getting up to leave when you see the cops coming to remove you is a day late and a dollar short, so to speak. At that point, expect to get questioned. Expect that you're going to be required to produce some form of ID, and if you don't comply, expect to get arrested.

And frankly, if you get tasered, don't be such a pussy about it. Honestly, low-end settings (like the ones the cops were using) may hurt, but it's not as bad as he was making it out to be. Stings like crazy though.

Deciding to make a scene, refuse to comply, and generally make an ass out of yourself... really doesn't leave me much sympathy for the kid.

And besides, getting dragged around while cuffed can actually hurt you a hell of a lot worse than the taser. Dislocated shoulders and broken wrists aren't all that uncommon.
 
Raesvelg said:
And frankly, if you get tasered, don't be such a pussy about it. Honestly, low-end settings (like the ones the cops were using) may hurt, but it's not as bad as he was making it out to be. Stings like crazy though.
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How do you know they used low-end settings? They had it in drive stun mode.

Besides, if he really have a medical condition it might be different for him.
 
Drive-Stun is a low end setting realistically, on pretty much any available setting of the weapon. It causes purely localized effects, primarily pain with some minor muscle spasms. If they'd shot him, and had the darts across his body, and then were shocking him and telling him to get up, you'd have some serious issues there, because when the probes have some decent separation, the effect is considerably more incapacitating.

The problem with drive-stun is that its effects tend to be so limited. Yeah, it hurts. A lot. But you're not incapacitated really, and if you lack for common sense, you'll continue to fight. So they shock you again, and again, and again. And eventually you either wise up or you get hit somewhere that can actually damage you, and the first case tends to look like police brutality, where the second case probably is.

Realistically, Tasers shouldn't be used as "cattle prods", which is what they were doing in that video. While it's considerably less dangerous than beating someone into compliance with those pussy ass batons cops use, it can still cause injury. If someone is passively resisting, just drag them. If they get injured, too bad.
 
The cops in question admit the guy was offering passive resistance when they tasered him.

Young described Tabatabainejad as a "passive resister" who refused to cooperate with officers. He acknowledged that the student didn't actively resist the officers.

"He was 200 pounds and went limp and was very hard to manage. They were trying to get him on his feet," Young said.
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Again, I think he'll win an excessive force lawsuit. Sounds like they got pissed because the guy wasn't going to be Mary's little lamb when they asked him to leave the library.
 
There was a rent-a-cop in the apartment complex I lived in a few years ago. He got fired for stealing a few of my friends hubcaps.

I'm dead serious.
 
"Very hard to manage"

???



Looked pretty easy when they finally decided to put the tasers away and drag him out.
 
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