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...
Crime, Opinion
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November 20, 9:00 pm
Trust me, I’m a Daily Bruin columnist: Column 1
Crime, Opinion
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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...
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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...