UCLA Student Taser'd for Not Showing ID in Library

A shouting student inside Powell Library at UCLA was shot with a stun gun at least twice last night, once after resisting police orders to "stop fighting us" when they tried to remove him from the building's computer lab and at least once while he refused loud demands to stand up.

Laila Gordy, a fourth-year economics student who was present in the library during the incident, said police officers threatened to shoot her with a Taser when she asked an officer for his name and his badge number.

"It was the most disgusting and vile act I had ever seen in my life," says David Remesnitsky, a witness and recent graduate.
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"Here's your Patriot Act. Here's your Fucking Abuse of Power"

This violent assault is the result of Homeland Security’s unchecked and unsupervised spending spree. Millions for additional security police with little or nothing spent on training them to use respect and restraint when dealing with citizens. The young man, an Iraqi-American citizen, was asked to show an ID card by campus security. The assault started when the young man indicated that he would be happy to show his ID provided security requested ID from the other male students in the library.

“The price paid for security is liberty.” Robert Wright, The Real War on Terrorism.