Protest At Your Own Risk

by digby

This is from last week’s protests at UCLA:

UCLA is no stranger to Taser Gun use. After a horrible video in 2006 surfaced of a student, who was already retrained by officers, being tasered several times, the school suffered a good amount of drama and settled with the student for $220,000. During protests over the past two days, at least a few students were tasered. UCLA officials said two were tasered on Wednesday and photos show that at least one student was on Thursday. A witness to Thursday’s incident tells LAist that two people were tasered during a scuffle captured in photos. “In fact with this particular incident,” said the student, “there were actually two students who were tasered, the girl lying down next to Rustin O’Neill on the right in the first photo posted was also tasered, once, in the arm, and Rustin was tasered multiple times over the heart.”

Somebody forgot to read their memo. Luckily he lived. But it’s going to be an expensive lawsuit.

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