UCLA Taser incident
| Date | November 14, 2006 |
|---|---|
| Time | 11:30 p.m. |
| Location | University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause | Shocked by a Taser |
| Participants | Terrence Duren, Alexis Bicomong, Kevin Kilgore, Andrew Ikeda (officers) Mostafa Tabatabainejad (detainee) |
| Non-fatal injuries | Mostafa Tabatabainejad |
| Litigation | Tabatabainejad filed a lawsuit against UCLA; settled with $220,000 |
The UCLA Taser incident occurred on November 14, 2006, when Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a fourth-year University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) student, was drive stunned multiple times with a Taser by campus police, for allegedly refusing to be escorted out of the College Library Instructional Computing Commons (CLICC) lab at Powell Library. The police had been called after Tabatabainejad had refused to provide his BruinCard (student ID) to a UCLA Community Service Officer during a routine check. Part of the incident was recorded on video by a camera phone.
Related pages[change | change source]
- Taser safety issues
- Taser International - Taser Manufacturer
- Braidwood Inquiry - Official Canadian inquiry into Tasers and similar devices
- University of Florida Taser incident
- Robert Dziekański Taser incident
- UC Davis pepper spray incident
Other websites[change | change source]
- Daily Bruin TV: Students march at UCLA to protest actions taken by police against student Archived 2012-08-05 at the Wayback Machine
- KNX Newsradio audio of the Nov. 17th Abrams press conference and an eyewitness account of the taser incident. Archived 2007-01-04 at the Wayback Machine
- YouTube video of the incident caught on a cameraphone
- Excessive and lethal force? Amnesty International's concerns about deaths and ill-treatment involving police use of tasers Archived 2006-11-23 at the Wayback Machine
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