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Ok, I've been resisting this for awhile. I am a student at UCLA and rather well informed on the matter. I have two friends that were at the library when it happened.
First off, there was a stabbing on campus a few weeks ago, high noon by a person (who was not a student but "looked" like one, backpack, young, etc.). we've always had security issues on our campus by non-students, especially at night. In fact, one of the paths from campus to the dorms is named "the Rape Trail". So in light of this background, the campus police have a policy of checking ids etc as a matter of security. Our students routinely set couches on fire during finals week (not exactly safe behavir). The campus police certainly have their hands full, not to mention the serial rapist and serial killer we had a few years back.
The problem arose whe one of the officers put their hand on his arm to escort him out (not exactly unreasonable) and then he proceeded to flip out by screaming "don't touch me!!!". In short, he was not cooperating by any stretch of the imagination. This kid could have definitely posed some kind of threat, we don't know it at the time.
I am happy this kind of bad student element was removed from the premises and hopefully he will be suspended or something so that the rest of us don;t have to endure this type of asinine behavior.
By the way, there were 3 cops (blaqck, hisanic and Asian). Charges of racism are patently ridiculous here.
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