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

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

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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