Re: Kid gets tasered in UCLA library...for no reason
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(a) Doesn't look like there is much potential for injury to the officers.
(b) There is some poential risk to this individual. The risks are small, but it is definitely there.
(c) I am not 100% sure what this means, but how much resistance can someone who is handcuffed and on the ground give.
(d) The nature of the offense involved was failing to show ID in a library.
(e) He was being loud, but there is no evidence he attempted to strike the officers.
(f) It is the middle of the night in the library, there probbaly isn't any real time pressure here.
(g) It isn't clear that this is much difference than (f).
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a) Sure there is. Everybody is safer if the kid walks out under his own power.
b) See a
c) Not sure either
d) Failure to show ID was the start of it all but the offence he was charged with was resisting and obstructing a police officer.
e) The way I read it, passive resistance is justification enough for UCPD to use a “pain compliance” technique.
f) It’s late, a crowd is gathering and there is a potential for the situation getting really ugly. I’d say there was plenty of reason to get this over with ASAP.
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