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Student Sues UCLA for Taser Incident

Eric Stern writes in The Sacramento Bee:

The UCLA student who was shocked repeatedly with a Taser gun in November by campus police filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in Los Angeles against the university.

"I suffered an unprovoked act of police brutality," said Mostafa Tabatabainejad, 24, in a statement issued by his attorney. "I hope that no one else will ever have this experience at UCLA or anywhere else again."

Tabatabainejad, who grew up in the Sacramento area, said his civil rights were violated in the Nov. 14 incident at the campus library that was captured on a cell phone camera and broadcast over the Internet. Tabatabainejad - heard screaming in pain in the video as students crowded in and jeered police - is seeking unspecified damages.

posted by Fergie @ 1/17/2007 09:04:00 PM