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Police officers used a Taser on a student repeatedly during an altercation at the UCLA library. There was a video made by one of the students who captured only the end of the altercation with the student shouting profanities at the police and then screaming in pain when he was Tased. What the video did not capture was that the student was asked to leave repeatedly and police had to be called in to ensure he left. When the police took him by the arm to escort him out, he began to physically struggle with officers and verbally berate them. In short, he picked a fight with police and found out the hard way why it is generally a bad idea to do so. Could police have tried to de-escalate the situation? Maybe. Police stated that the student in question encouraged other students to join his one-man resistance, which likely led police to threaten the mob that surrounded the officers. The ACLU, of course, is calling the police’s actions an illegal assault and police brutality. Here's the video of the incident. Beware it contains language, violence and disturbing content:
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