Iranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN


(From my friend Naomi at Umich)

hey folks,

this tuesday, a student at UCLA, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was asked to
leave the library because he did not have his student ID. when he did
not immediately leave, the campus security officer checking IDs came
back with the police. as the student was walking out of the library, an
officer grabbed his arm. when he protested, the police used a taser gun
on him, at least five times. they continued to tase him even as he lay
motionless on the ground and, according to some witness accounts, after
he was handcuffed. they also threatened to tase students in the crowd
who asked for the officers' badge numbers.

just a couple things about tasers:

-tasing a person for 3-5 seconds can immobilize them for 5-15 minutes.
this means that when the officers ordered him to stand up, he most
likely was not able to because he had just been tased--and then, of
course, they tased him for not standing up.
-148 people have died from tasers since 1999.

this is a serious, violent crime and the UCLA police CONTINUE to stand
behind it. the implications of the crime and its defense by authorities
are grave and monstrous. please get this information out there.

some articles (there are many more out there accessible through google):

http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10325914/detail....
http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?...
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?sectio...

yours in struggle,
naomi