BADGES!? BADGES!? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!!!

So I turn on the news the other day and lo’ and behold, there’s another story involving the use of excessive force by Los Angeles police. But this isn’t a scenario involving a possibly intoxicated driver or a borderline crack addict or even a case of mistaken identity. This was the brutal and repeated electrocution of a UCLA student with a taser for his inability to produce his student identification card.

The amateur video taken by eyewitnesses using cell phone cameras has spread across the internet through sites like YouTube and HotAir with lightning speed. It’s probably the most disturbing 6 minutes of video on the internet since the Paris Hilton sex tape. An American born Iranian student who was studying or hanging out at Powell library at UCLA and was asked to furnish his student ID by campus police. The young man did not have his ID, words were exchanged, and then the police proceeded to taser him about four or five times. The screams of the young student are blood curdling. Even worse is their response to other students who come to the aid of the young student. One office tells someone to stand back or he’ll get tased as well.

Overall, it’s a despicable act. Makes you wonder what sort of a society we’ve become when there are people who are capable of justifying the use of such force. This is the first of just a few steps we take before our nation becomes a fascist, military state. When the police can taser you to the point where you’re screaming and begging them to stop, then this is just wrong, and we have to hold those responsible accountable. In case you’re wondering what being tased feels like, just watch this video where police officers voluntarily get tased in order to know what it feels like. You’ll see grown men squirm like little puppies after the first shock. Now watch the UCLA police clip. Remember that the police being tased know what’s about to happen and can prepare themselves. The UCLA student had no idea he was going to be tased over and over and over and over again. If you still are curious how this feels, then go attach a clamp with a wire to your nipples and put the other end in an open electric outlet and enjoy. I don’t know if that’s how this feels, but the screams make it seem like it is.

We are becoming an out of control police state. These officers should be given the following punishment. Every morning, they will be awakened by a taser Then, randomly throughout the day, they will be tased again at the most inopportune and unexpected times – in the bathroom, on a date, during sleep. That’s what people like this deserve.

I can think of a few other societies and countries where the police have used excessive force and torture against their student populations. The list includes nations such as Turkey, Saudi Arabia, former Soviet Republics and other places I would never visit even if I won a free vacation package.

Police keep our streets (and campuses) safe but if this is their idea of maintaining law and order, then we have to wake up as a country and keep these jerks who give law and order a bad name off of our police forces! I hope the guys responsible for this incident are disciplined to the full extent of the law.

I’m still shaking from watching this video. OMG!