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On November 14, 2006, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student, was drive stunned five times with a Taser by campus police while handcuffed. Tabatabainejad allegedly refused to show his school ID to a fellow student acting as security at the college library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC ...
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The UCLA Taser incident occurred on November 14, 2006, when Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student, was drive stunned multiple times with a Taser by campus police, for allegedly refusing to be escorted out of the College Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC) lab at Powell Library.
Jan 18, 2007 · The UCLA student who was stunned with a Taser gun by campus police when he refused to show his identification filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday alleging that his civil rights were violated and...
Nov 18, 2006 · Hoping to calm the furor created when UCLA police used a Taser to subdue a student studying in Powell Library, the university’s acting chancellor announced Friday that a veteran Los Angeles law...
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Upton analyzed 113 cases of “TASER use of force” (as reported in news articles) and identified 19 of those cases as resulting in death (notwithstanding the lack of a causal association). The author suggested that the remaining cases “involved use of TASER force that may be in question for police misconduct”. Another author reported that all deaths...
CEWs have been referred to as a “refinement” of “electro-torture” [138] and as having origins “in Argentina in the early twentieth century” for use in “torture and interrogation of human subjects by police” [139]. These beliefs, however, are in contrast with the original intent of the development of the weapons as a non-lethal alternative to other ...
Some have suggested that CEWs are designed for “replacement of firearms” [147]. A CEW, however, is usually not intended to “replace” a firearm [148]. In one police department, although the chief stated that CEW use was, in essence, “an alternative to deadly force,” the department’s general orders included a statement that CEWs were “not a substitut...
- James R. Jauchem
- jrj@forensicpathophysiology.com
- 2015
Nov 17, 2006 · The UCLA student stunned with a Taser by a campus police officer has hired a high-profile civil rights lawyer who plans to file a brutality lawsuit.
the TASER was the plaintiff’s active resistance to the lawful intervention of the UCLA Police Department officers who were enforcing campus rules. PARC, p.1: We find that one UCLAPD officer violated UCLA use of force policies in the incident. REBUTTAL: No UCLAPD officer violated UCLA use of force policies in this incident.
