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Friday, November 17, 2006 12:00 AM

Shocking incident

The controversial taser incident at UCLA
By David Puner

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  • Friday, November 17, 2006 12:53 PM

    He, in fact, says that he was leaving, several times

    If he was asked to leave, and was in the process of gathering his things to go when they decided to get trigger-happy with the tazers, what else could he have done? Been more polite, perhaps, but shouldn't the bar for administering electric shocks to someone be set higher than "he said mean things to me"?

    —No Name Given

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