Monday, November 20

"Dudes, where are you?"

At first take,
it appears to be UCLA police continually tasering a student on the ground. The student was disobeying orders to "get up", when he was shocked on the ground.

I cannot believe the number of fellow students in the library -- even if they have been trained as a generation to be submissive to authority -- that stood for so long and watched, and did nothing to surround the man on the ground to shield him, or lift him up to physically remove him from the situation.

Nevermind that the UCLA police -- 2 or 3 of them -- thought using their Tasers to subdue a man on the ground was necessary. "Get up, get up". Doesn't UCLA have any type of physical requirements for security; don't they carry handcuffs?

This is a shame for any university. I'm sure it will get spun so the authority comes out clean, but this did not appear to be a drug-addled man out-of-control. The only orders were to "get up! get up!"

Maybe the magnificent echoes, as they continued to taze the student through UCLA's grand library hallway, will wake up some young Americans. "Get up! Get up!"

Your country once stood for something more than making a buck.
Stand up. You have the numbers to make things work differently.
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Added: I wish the student on the ground would have, at one point, yelled, "Help Me." I am curious to see if his fellow students then would have become more actively involved.