Word: tabatabainejad
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...macabre interest hasn’t yet drawn you to watch the YouTube.com video of UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad being repeatedly Tasered by university police, I’d advise against it. Six long minutes of aggrieved protest, punctuated by piercing screams from shocks of 50,000 volts, is unsettling even for the most Guantanamo-accepting amongst...
...incident occurred after 11 p.m. last Tuesday in UCLA’s Powell Library. University officials were carrying out a routine late night procedure, randomly checking IDs to ensure only students remained in the library. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times, Tabatabainejad, a senior at the college, refused repeated requests to show his student ID, first to a community service officer and then to regular campus police. The Los Angeles Times reported that Tabatabainejad declined to hand over his ID, claiming he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance...
Tabatabainejad’s attorney, Stephen Yagman, stated that Tabatabainejad eventually agreed to leave the library but when a police officer refused to remove his hands from Tabatabainejad, Tabatabainejad fell to the ground in further protest against his unjust treatment. The attendant police then used a Taser on Tabatabainejad, who reacted by trying to get “the use of brutal force to stop by shouting and causing people to watch,” the LA Times quoted Yagman as saying...