A Look Back on a Racist Event

UCLA Student Tasered... for reasons that I simply do not understand.On November 14, 2006, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year old, was shocked while leaving the library at the University of California, Los Angeles. He had been asked to leave after failing to show a student ID card. The incident occurred around 11:30 pm at the university's Pwell Library computer lab when the victim failed to provide a valid ID card during a random check. Apparently, he was then asked to leave and he failed to immediately leave the premise but he was on his way out, when a police officer grabbed his hand and it is from there that the gruesome acts began and the rest is history. Footage of the event caught on a video phone was posted on the YouTube website and has been widely circulated on the internet causing much concern amongst viewers. It's been reported that the video received over 500,000 views in its first few days on-line.First, I just want to comment that this news was only really shown on YouTube and university communication sites and not on any national news sites or media outlets, that I know of. Why? Perhaps because of the image of the UCPD. Second, I don't even know where to begin. For one, since when do university libraries go on "random checks" where they go around asking people for valid ID cards? I know for a fact that students from Saddleback College, from various high school, (point being.. NON-UCI STUDENTS) access our libraries and our computer labs and no one cares or rather... no one checks! So, why was this student asked to leave the premises simply because he did not have a valid ID... so he may not have been a UCLA student... BIG DEAL! And I don't even want to start commenting on the actions taken against him. I am utterly disgusted and I had forgotten about the incident until I happened to come across the video on YouTube and decided to go ahead and comment on it. I really don't even know what to say anymore.... I think the video speaks for itself.