Last updated at 6:14 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, 2006 University police identified the officers involved in a Nov. 14 Taser incident on Monday, naming an officer who has been implicated in prior cases of police misconduct and use of excessive force. Read more...
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November 19, 9:00 pm
[BREAKING NEWS]: Officers named in Taser incident
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November 19, 9:00 pm
Letters to the Editor: Responses to the Taser incident
Letters from the UC community UCPD needs to better serve its community While I do agree with David Lazar (“Beware of easy knee-jerk reactions,” Nov. 17) that Mostafa Tabatabainejad was uncooperative and even hostile, an unarmed civilian refusing to leave a library hardly justifies use of force. Read more...
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November 19, 9:00 pm
Objecting to use of police force
Hundreds of UCLA students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon to protest the multiple uses of a Taser on a UCLA student by university police. Read more...
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November 16, 9:00 pm
[Online Exclusive]: UCLA community gathers to protest Taser incident, campus violence
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
Questions raised about safety, regulation of Tasers
When university police officers were called to Powell Library on Tuesday night to escort a student off the premises, they used weapons which are unregulated and have largely unknown effects on the body. Read more...
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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...