Comments on: Again, Police Brutality

By: Mareekho

Mareekho — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:41:39 +0000

Check it out – AngryArab will give a talk on Lebanon at UCLA on Tuesday. The talk will be held at 2:30 pm in the Center’s library/conference room, Bunche Hall 10383.

By: taz

taz — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:31:28 +0000

Yay!!! You got your blog on Wiretap! Whoo hoo! you must have really dope ass friends in really cool places to work that gig…

By: taz

taz — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:30:50 +0000

Yay!!! You got your blog on Wiretap! Whoo hoo!

By: Mark Haile

Mark Haile — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:37:19 +0000

In part because this happened during the network “sweeps,” was filmed by another student, and one of the local news outlets got hold of the horrific record of abuses filed against the (now suspended) officer, this is getting attention. Pressure from outside the university does have an effect.

By: los anjalis » Shock and awe: thoughts on the UCLA taser incident

los anjalis » Shock and awe: thoughts on the UCLA taser incident — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:12:53 +0000

[...] My friend Vivek is a law student at UCLA and writes at a wonderful blog called Your Good Name. He participated in a protest organized by UCLA students, on the issue of a Persian-American student who was tasered (stunned by a stun gun with 50,000 volts) several times by community police in the university library. And he had this to say about the framing of the protest: But after attending the protest today at UCLA, where the messaging was around public safety rather than police brutality and race, I realize that we do not have much time. We donâ€™t have time to obfuscate, to skate over the issues that dig deep into us and threaten to rip us all apart. [...]