Last Tuesday night, after refusing to show his BruinCard to university police officers, UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad was viciously stunned with a Taser five times. We barely had to wait until morning for the Internet to become abuzz with premature accusations and unsubstantiated speculation. Read more...
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November 20, 9:00 pm
Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 2
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November 20, 9:00 pm
Officer named in Taser incident
Terrence Duren, whose tenure with university police has included an award for UCPD Officer of the Year as well as allegations of police misconduct and use of excessive force, was the officer who used a Taser against Mostafa Tabatabainejad in Powell Library last Tuesday, university police said Monday. Read more...
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November 20, 9:00 pm
Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1
Mostafa Tabatabainejad is totally guilty. Some may say it’s premature to make conclusions about the incident last Tuesday, in which Tabatabainejad was stunned with a Taser five times in Powell Library after refusing to follow the orders of university police officers. Read more...
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November 20, 9:00 pm
Letters to the Editor
Anti-Semitism not new on UCLA campus In our time at UCLA, Holocaust revisionists, raving xenophobic fanatics and other propagators of anti-Semitic hate have been invited to speak on campus. Read more...
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November 19, 9:00 pm
[BREAKING NEWS]: Officers named in Taser incident
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
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...