[privacy] Police Use Stun Gun on Student for Not Showing ID at UCLALibrary

[Larry Seltzer]

I guess he should have showed his ID.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
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Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:rms at computerbytesman.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:25 PM
To: privacy at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: [privacy] Police Use Stun Gun on Student for Not Showing ID at
UCLALibrary

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,229942,00.html

LOS ANGELES -  A UCLA police officer shocked a student with a stun gun
at a campus library after he refused repeated requests to show student
identification and wouldn't leave, police said.

The student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was shocked Tuesday at about 11
p.m. as police did a routine check of student IDs at the University of
California, Los Angeles Powell Library computer lab.

"This is a long-standing library policy to ensure the safety of students
during the late-night hours," said UCLA Police Department spokeswoman
Nancy Greenstein.

She said police tried to escort Tabatabainejad, 23, out of the library
after he refused to provide identification. Tabatabainejad instead
encouraged others at the library to join his resistance, and when a
crowd began to gather, police used the stun gun on him, Greenstein said.

Tabatabainejad was arrested for resisting and obstructing a police
officer and later released on his own recognizance. He declined to
comment Wednesday night.

The incident was recorded on another student's camera phone and showed
Tabatabainejad screaming while on the floor of the computer lab. It was
the third incident in a month in which police behavior in the city was
criticized after amateur video surfaced. The other two involved the Los
Angeles Police Department.

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