There’s a new controversy brewing, but the answer is quite simple: It’s called resisting arrest.

Video here.
So let’s break it down: If someone enters a library or computer lab, starts screaming and carrying-on like a maniac, you&#…

The UCLA had a Muslim student who defied campus police, refused to show an ID, and shreiked instead of just leaving a library laboratory cooperatively when the time came. You can see this video to find out just what happened (via Michelle Malkin), an…

The campus police was wrong but they were lured into this by a very carefully planned conspiracy. Watch the details get investigated over the next few weeks. How come there was only one student recording? How come the recording did not start from the beginning of the incident? Did you hear the student swear at the police? tell them [edited]your patriot act? How come his attorney is a 2 time disbarred attorney who was the only attorney thrown out of the Federal Court?
Things are never what they seem.

Check it out, courtesy of our friends in Australia. It was a freakfest, no doubt about that. There were anarchists galore, they got proof of that. The anarchists broke up street signs and used them as weapons. I can’t imagine that people who …

That said, the security officers were horribly out of line as well. Their lives were not in danger (three security guys cannot handle one unruly student?), and neither were the lives of anyone in the immediate area. The situation could have simply been handled by open-handing the kid to the ground, zip-tying his wrists, and dragging his sorry arse out of the computer cluster. A SINGLE taser burst might have been necessary to get him limp such that they could accomplish that, but repeated ones? Hell no.

As for “standing up”, if my understandings of tasers is accurate, they are designed to incapacitate someone for at least a few minutes. Tasering someone, and then immediately requesting them to stand up is just plain counterproductive, illogical, and stupid. They are not going to have sufficient motor control of their legs to do much of anything, be it stand up, threaten you, or run away.

There should definitely be an investigation into this matter… while the student was obviously in the wrong, the security types were as well. Of course, now tasers will be getting all manner of negative press due to this incident… *sighs*

I agree with you. There seems to be an increase in the use of Tasers.
I’d be interested in knowing if there has been a study done, that shows a corresponding decrease in lethal force.

Here on the ranch, we use a similar device called a “Hotshot”, used to move dumb, stubborn animals like cattle and hogs.
Animals that cool themselves in stocktanks, are hard to get out and cattle that stall in the chute can be dangerous to property and people and a prod will get them moving again.

Of course, in this situation, we are dealing with a higher “intelligent” life form. One which is supposedly, attempting to increase his knowledge in an “institution of higher learning.” The fact that he cannot follow simple directives and does not respond to painful incentives, leaves me at a loss.

It does however, give me a better appreciation of the dumb animals I have to deal with daily.
(now, if I can just teach them to vote)

A student who was shocked by a campus police officer’s Taser gun after he refused to show his ID at