Reply #129: You "said it was too much."

[pnwmom]

So why do you keep arguing about whatever the student did beforehand?

The State of California doesn't employ that student. The State of California employs those campus policeman, and the State of California is responsible for their actions -- which, in their totality, FAR outweighed any mistake that that student made.

No, the video doesn't cover everything. But the police have already made statements about what led up to the Tasering. Even in the worst case scenario -- that the police statements and not the eyewitness statements were correct -- the student did nothing more harmful than not having an ID and not immediately leaving, followed by advocating for his rights.

The police are condemned, in my opinion, by their own statements and by the evidence on the video. And UCLA is also responsible because the University approved of a Taser policy that allows campus cops to use the Tasers on passive resistors (although it didn't appear to anticipate that the Taser would be used repeatedly under circumstances like these.)