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God, I love tasers

Here we have the case of one Mostafa Tabatabainejad,

a UCLA student, was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the CLICC Lab in Powell Library in a timely manner. Community Service Officers had asked Tabatabainejad to leave after he failed to produce his BruinCard during a random check at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.

UCPD Assistant Chief of Police Jeff Young said the checks are a standard procedure in the library after 11 p.m.

“Because of the safety of the students we limit the use after 11 to just students, staff and faculty,” Young said.

Young said the CSOs on duty in the library at the time went to get UCPD officers when Tabatabainejad did not immediately leave, and UCPD officers resorted to use of the Taser when Tabatabainejad did not do as he was told.

A six-minute video showed Tabatabainejad audibly screaming in pain as he was stunned several times with a Taser, each time for three to five seconds. He was told repeatedly to stand up and stop fighting, and was told that if he did not do so he would “get Tased again.”

You know, when a policeman tells you to do something as simple as show your card, just show your card.  Especially if your name is something like Mostafa Tabatabainejad. Common sense tells you that today, if your name is Mostafa Tabatabainejad and the reflection in the mirror is of a Arab male between the ages of 17 and 35, if a policeman asks you to simply display your card you shouldn’t get belligerent, profane and physically violent.  You should say, “Certainly, officer, here you go,” and not get tased a half dozen times.  That’s really much simpler, isn’t it? 

Of course, the moonbat media in California are trying to turn this into another Rodney King incident, but it’s just not so.  This chap had every opportunity to comply with what seems to be a fairly reasonable request, chose instead to be a moron, and paid the price.  The simple truth is that the police don’t know that Mostafa Tabatabainejad doesn’t have a bomb jacket or twelve guns.  Rather than spend five seconds whipping out his student ID he spent five minutes growing more and more agitated, violent and profane.  At that point he fits the profile and the police responded absolutely appropriately. 

H/T: Michelle, whose readers took great pains to assure her that the cops weren’t profiling.  Perhaps not, but I don’t care if they were, and CAIR can just STFU and tell American Muslims that if they don’t want to KEEP being profiled to act civilly. 

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