Student Tasering Shocks US Muslims

"Several of the UCLA’s Muslim Student Association members contacted CAIR after the incident because they were concerned about their public safety," Hussam Ayloush, CAIR Southern California’s Executive Director, told IslamOnline.net.

"The images were very painful and disturbing to watch and the incident shook UCLA students’ sense of security."

Mostafa Tabatabainejad, an American Muslim student of Iranian background, was in the Powell Library CLICC computer lab at11 : 30p.m. last Tuesday when Community Service Officers (CSOs) asked him to leave because he failed to show his identification card during a random check.

When he did not leave the library immediately, the CSOs - UCLA students hired by UC Police Department to aide in security and service activities - returned back minutes later along with police officers to escort him out.

As the student began to walk toward the door with his backpack, an officer approached him and grabbed his arm, at which point the student told the officer to let him go. A second officer then approached the student as well.

When Tabatabainejad began to yell "get off me," the officers shot him with a taser for the first time, causing him to fall to the floor and cry out in pain.

Excessive Force

Although the handcuffed student eventually agreed to be escorted out of the library and even after he told them he had a medical condition, the UCPD officers repeatedly tasered him before taking him into custody.

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