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The student was obviously in the wrong. He was asked to leave. By a police officer. He had no right to be in there without ID. Yes, he may be a student, but read the rules of the library and they clearly state that you must have an ID to be there. Not be a student - be a card-carrying ID-holder.
So, he has no right to be there. He's asked to leave. Refuses. Police are called. THEY ask him to leave (legal order). He REFUSES. He doesn't start to leave or anything like that, he stands there and screams at them to stop touching him. Somewhere in this thread was mentioned that he had the right to say that - no he didn't!
He's refusing to obey a police officer's orders, they have the right to put their hand on him. He then causes a scene. He's obviously trying to just gather crowd support "Am I the only martyr here?" :P.
So then they tazer him to comply. While you may argue that they should have tried talking a bit more (though I think it'd be fruitless, I also think that), there was NOTHING wrong with them tazering him. Zero. At that point they were trying to arrest him. He was resisting arrest.
This type of tazer burns like hell for about 5 seconds, evidently (I've never been tasered, this is from 3 sources who have) and then you're fine. You can stand up. Fine. Unless he had a medical condition, which has not been mentioned besides a mere possibility anywhere, which I know would be if it were the case. Regardless, it's not the cop's responsibility to ask if you have lead poisoning before shooting you in the shoulder to disable your trigger hand - it's not their responsibility to ask if you're going to be more than normally hurt from a tazer before suppressing you.
As it were said, the cops were pretty much in the right. I would have supported them fully had I been there. Thank you to that UCLA student who posted.
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