Abuse of power, indeed.

[batskeets]

This is MESSED UP: Read the article, and watch the video.

Tasering that student for what he did (which was basically nothing) was a completely unneccessary use of force. The students who witnessed it knew that, or they wouldn't have been asking the officers to stop, or requesting their badge numbers.

And *threatening* a bystander with the taser for requesting badge numbers? Just plain ridiculous.

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Yeah, and it gets worse when you find out that this is the second incident

[kitsileya.livejournal.com]

of police brutality by the UC university police in less than a month. During a demonstration at UC Santa Cruz on Oct. 18, the University police used batons and pepper spray against students indiscriminately and without warning, 3 people were arrested, and the most charges where brought against an African American female student, who was charged not only with disturbing a public meeting and resisting arrest, but also three additional felony accounts of battering a police officer. An article on the incident can be found here.

The UCSA has made a resolution that lists the grievances, and demands that legal charges and academic punishments against these students be dropped, that the police officers involved in the two incidents be suspended, and third party investigations approved by the student governments of the two campuses.