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UCLA Student Tasered

By Tom Head, About.com

When It Happened:

November 14th, 2006

Who Was Involved:

  • Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a 23-year-old student at the University of California, Los Angeles.
  • UCLA campus police.
  • An anonymous student, carrying a cell phone videocamera.

What Happened:

On the evening of November 14th, 2006, UCLA campus police tasered, restrained, and then continued to taser student Mostafa Tabatabainejad for refusing to show his ID to a security guard. Another student, carrying a cell phone camera, recorded it all and put the video online.

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