Hundreds of UCLA students, faculty, staff and community members gathered in Meyerhoff Park Friday afternoon to protest the multiple uses of a Taser on a UCLA student by university police. A Taser was used five times on Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year Middle Eastern and North African studies and philosophy student, in Powell Library Tuesday night […]
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[Online Exclusive]: UCLA community gathers to protest Taser incident, campus violence
Meyerhoff Park was electric Friday afternoon when more than 400 students, faculty, staff, parents and community members gathered to protest the use of a Taser multiple times on a UCLA student in Powell Library on Tuesday night. Student leaders stood on the steps of Kerckhoff Hall, leading the crowd in chants that included "One, two, […]
Questions raised about safety, regulation of Tasers
When university police officers were called to Powell Library on Tuesday night to escort a student off the premises, they used weapons which are unregulated and have largely unknown effects on the body. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old UCLA student, was hit with a Taser at least four times after he was unable to produce his […]
Community responds to Taser use in Powell
RAW FOOTAGE Click here to see footage of the taser incident. An incident late Tuesday night in which a UCLA student was stunned at least four times with a Taser has left the UCLA community questioning whether the university police officers’ use of force was an appropriate response to the situation. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA […]
Letters to the Editor
Let UCPD do its job to protect us I am appalled by the reporting of the confrontation between university police and the suspicious individual in Powell Library two nights ago (“Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers,” Nov. 15). As California police, UCPD has repeatedly acted with professionalism and concern for students. As a community, […]
[BREAKING NEWS]: Student shot with Taser by UCPD officers
UCPD officers shot a student several times with a Taser inside the Powell Library CLICC computer lab late Tuesday night before taking him into custody. No university police officers were available to comment further about the incident as of 3 a.m. Wednesday, and no Community Service Officers who were on duty at the time could […]
Anti-Semitism marks UCLA
A Kerckhoff Hall restroom was vandalized sometime Tuesday night or Wednesday morning when someone drew swastikas and scrawled “fuck Jews” on a stall door. As of Wednesday afternoon, police said they had received no reports of the incident, which will likely qualify as a hate crime. According to the university police Web site, any incident […]