Mostafa Tabatabainejad

Linked from http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-taser21nov21,0,1459046.story --- Terrence Duren, a 2001 UCLA officer of the year, has been the subject of two other use-of-force complaints. Read Full Story

Linked from http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-011707taser,0,6813210.story?coll=la-home-headlines --- "What everyone saw on videotape demonstrates that the UCLA police department lacks the professionalism that parents of UCLA students expect from a public institution," Hoffman said. "The larger goal of the suit is to change the way UCLA police behave and treat people on campus, their discipline and their training." Read Full Story

Linked from http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38958 Initial write-up from Daily Bruin (the UCLA paper)... --- 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. Gordy was visibly upset by the incident and said other students were also disturbed. "It's a shock that something like this can happen at UCLA," she said. "It was unnecessary what they did." ----- It's pretty apparent that most students were incredibly appalled by the incident. Read Full Story

Linked from http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-cellcamera16nov16,1,2951795.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california Good write-up from the LA times includes the following quote: --- "It was beyond grotesque," said UCLA graduate David Remesnitsky of Los Angeles, who witnessed the incident. "By the end they took him over the stairs, lifted him up and Tasered him on his rear end. It seemed like it was inappropriately placed. The Tasering was so unnecessary and they just kept doing it." ----- Read Full Story

Linked from http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960 --- Tabatabainejad was also stunned with the Taser when he was already handcuffed, said Carlos Zaragoza, a third-year English and history student who witnessed the incident. "(He was) no possible danger to any of the police," Zaragoza said. "(He was) getting shocked and Tasered as he was handcuffed." Read Full Story