The video demonstrates very clearly that tasers do not "paralyze" the subject as their manufacturers claim... Instead it is purely a "pain compliance" weapon.

according to all witnesses he was on his way out when one of the cops grabbed him. and yeah they did keep yelling 'get up' 'get up' AFTER they tazered him. you can't get up after you've been tazered, so great 'get up or we'll tazer you again', he can't get up and get's tazered again (and again, 4 or 5 times by my count).

these cops should be fired and charged with assault and whoever trained these cops should be fired and sued.

Why at night? Because there are far fewer people in the library at night, and its darker, and more things can go wrong when it's darker and not many people are around. At my college, everyone had to show ID after I think 9pm, and all day every day during the week before and during finals. No ID, no library, no exceptions. What's up with people thinking that rules don't apply to them?

Why is it that people in California disobey multiple, direct instructions from police officers, resist arrest and then are surprised when the police restrain them with force?

They should have killed him...I hope he ruins those asshole cops...I saw all I need ...rule for the Plaintiff...punish the security co. or school...Puntative damages gay-lore.

cops have too, too, too, too, too much power....rebel against the facist state...blah blahh...anarchy is here...we just don't realize it ...yet

The Police in Rocky Mount, NC two days ago KILLED a guy by tazing him after he broke some windows at a motel. Apparently no procedures were broken and no cops have to answer for anything.

On the other hand if you are a college student purposefully testing the limits in order to make a case out of something, much like people who protest any other way or indulge in sit ins etc, then isn't it also true that in part you're looking to get hurt? Isn't that the point of what you're doing?

While I think that tasering a student in a University library is awful, let's not forget that he refused to show his ID when asked multiple times by multiple sets of officers (a routine and standard request). His refusal to comply with a reasonable and lawful request designed in part to protect the student body is the core reason for what happened to him. His excuse - that he refused to show his ID because he felt they were singling him out due to his Middle Eastern appearance - is a sick joke on a campus as diverse as UCLA. It is time that we stop jumping to conclusions about police activities, and demand that people take responsibility for their own actions. The UCLA campus police have been interacting with students for decades, and all of a sudden they decide to start tasering them because of their Middle Eastern appearance? Give me a break!

From here it looks and sounds as if those idiots have at least Masters Degrees in Brutality.

If someone refuses to obey the rules that keep UCLA students safe during night time hours at the library like showing ID, yes they deserve to be thrown out. But I can’t help to think that maybe this cat was, like many homeless, mentally challenged. Would they have tazed a person with Down's in the same situation? I know I can't compare this to students going limp at a sit down protest, but it pains me to admit that we have become more tolerant as a society of excessive violence in the enforcement, and often over-enforcement, of the law.

I certainly think the cops went overboard with the tazers here, but that guy was absolutely determined to make a huge issue out of this. I love the part where he starts yelling about the PATRIOT act, as if that has anything whatsoever to do with UCLA's campus security. That said, I still don't what was stopping the cops from just handcuffing him, searching him for weapons, and then physically carrying him out without resorting to tazers. He probably still would've screamed bloody murder, but it would've been much less justified.

Is the criminal abuse of power here not obvious? Really?

My university sometimes conducted random checks of student IDs in the night hours, but it was not a common practive. I don't know how often the UCLA staff performs checks, but do any of you think this a resonable response to a student who doesn't have an ID. We don't know exactly how this incident began, but reports indicate that the student may have bene rcailly profiled to some extent because of his middle eastern appearance. If this is true, can you blame the guy for being a little bit indignant? Reports also indicate that the student was preparing or already in the processing of leaving the facility when he was first assaulted.

So even if the kid was rude to the cops, since when has that been an excuse to put his life in danger? I think many of you have lost sight of the magnitude of this weapon. Tasing has KILLED people before. It is not a crowd control technique or a tool meant to encourage upset people to cooperate with police. Tasers are meant to be used as a last-resort defense tool under the immediate threat of violence. This student posed absolutely no threat of violence to anyone around him. In fact, he can clearly be heard in the video saying, "I am not fighting you!" to the officers. And he was tased FOUR more times after he made that declaration.

And that is where this crime goes from disgusting to the pinnacle of brutality. This kid was tased five times on the floor of the library in a public display. Do you think you could spring to your feet after being tased? Do you know what that feeling is like? Neither do I. How about if you were tased two times? Three times? Four times? Five times separte times in front of your peers while never once threatening violence and maintaining a pacifist attitude? That's what this kid experienced in a public forum.

What if the police officers had simply started beating him with bats? If they only beat him mildly, the pain inflicted might be on par with a tasing experience and the chance they would kill him would be small but not zero - just like using their tasers. Would that be an acceptable way to deal with students who left their ID in their room and were racially profiled? Beatings from campus police?

So all of you justifying this action because the kid was "breaking the rules," think about getting tased for jaywalking, for smoking a cigarette to close to a building entrance; think of being tased because you peacefully questioned the motivation or legality of a police officer's actions? Is this the power we want our authorities to have? Is this the abuse we want our COLLEGE CAMPUS SECURITY to practice??