Meyerhoff Park was electric Friday afternoon when more than 400 students, faculty, staff, parents and community members gathered to protest the use of a Taser multiple times on a UCLA student in Powell Library on Tuesday night. Read more...
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November 16, 9:00 pm
[Online Exclusive]: UCLA community gathers to protest Taser incident, campus violence
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November 15, 9:00 pm
Community responds to Taser use in Powell
RAW FOOTAGE Click here to see footage of the taser incident. An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers’ use of force was an appropriate response to the situation. Read more...
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November 15, 9:00 pm
Letters to the Editor
Let UCPD do its job to protect us I am appalled by the reporting of the confrontation between university police and the suspicious individual in Powell Library two nights ago (“Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers,” Nov. Read more...
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November 14, 9:00 pm
[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody. No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Read more...
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November 1, 9:00 pm
Anti-Semitism marks UCLA
A Kerckhoff Hall restroom was vandalized sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning when someone drew swastikas and scrawled “fuck Jews” on a stall door. As of Wednesday afternoon, police said they had received no reports of the incident, which will likely qualify as a hate crime. Read more...
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October 23, 9:00 pm
UCPD will not remove homeless people
Though Los Angeles police have begun cracking down on transients sleeping on sidewalks in the city, university police said they have no plans to do the same on campus. Read more...
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October 23, 9:00 pm
Violent crime is not the norm
While incidents like Friday’s stabbing outside Kerckhoff Hall draw much attention, university officials said in reality violent crime on campus is fairly rare. Since 2003, university police have not recorded any homicides, and Nancy Greenstein, director of police community services at UCPD, said assault is the most common type of crime police respond to. Read more...