LOS ANGELES, November 17, 2006 – This Friday students at UCLA protested the campus police use of high voltage electric shock guns by officers on a student last Tuesday night. A video of the police repeatedly shocking the student in the campus main library has caused outrage. Students are demanding the immediate suspension of the officers involved, an independent investigation into the incident, and that tasers are banned from the campus police arsenal.

About 500 students took part in a rally and march to campus police station. There was no uniformed police present at the rally and march. There were no arrests or violence from the police at this event. There were, however a number of under-cover police in the crowd and some students think they recognized a few of the under-covers as being the same officers that were involved in the attack on the student.

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Maybe it will help if I write that I am an alumni of UCLA ( Class of 05 started 99) we are having problems with teh sheriffs at LACC. One sheriff ( the lead detective investigating a rape on campus) said that " women who file rape reports were probably drunk the night before". I HEARD HIM SAY THIS IN UNIFORM. SO a group of students ( 40) led a march to the office to file a complaint.

The administration has now banned me from LACC and all LA community college district schools effective November 27th until Spring of 07. I will be filing for a hearing but I would like some help from UCLA. We need to link the campuses up to start a movement against these brutal police officers. If anyone wants to contact me please email me personally.

Following unprovoked attacks on unarmed citizens by police state thugs, we need to question our continued dependency on armed police force that primarily exist to protect the consolidated power of the ruling elites..

Copwatch LA seeks to organize neighborhoods to police themselves, thus rendering statist police obsolete;

organize your neighborhood against police brutality @;
http://www.copwatchla.org/

The long term goal is for police officers to resign from the force, put down their badges and guns, returning to the community as human beings..

Kristian Williams, author of "Enemies in Blue; Police and Power in America";

"Enemies in Blue: Examines the history of police violence from a radical, but pragmatic and highly readable, perspective. Written for both the lay reader and for scholars, the book shows that police misconduct isn't just a matter of a "bad apples," but is a function of the very nature of policing in the United States. Williams examines the populations most often subjected to police abuse and the forms that abuse takes. He delves into the role of police brutality in targeting certain segments of society and in preserving existing structures of inequality.

Examining the history of policing and observing current practice,
Williams explains how modern police forces evolved from slave patrols and protection rackets, explores racism in law enforcement critiques
"community" policing, and suggests strategies for combating police violence. He also includes a chapter on prison economics, with an emphasis on how police have cooperated with politicians to increase the number of prisons. Williams also offers practical guidance to activists and looks forward to making police obsolete.

"Seldom does one come across a book so right on target as this one. Clearly framed, drawing upon a wealth of data, straightforwardly presented and reaching uncomfortable but nonetheless unassailable conclusions on every point, Our Enemies In Blue is imperative reading for anyone in the least concerned by the implications attending the rampant growth of police power and violence in the United States."—Ward Churchill
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read on @;
http://www.mostlywater.org/police_violence_and_the_war_on_terror

Most PD's, (Including UWPD in Madison), would have done the same thing, AND would have peppersprayed the gathering crowd. The UCLA PD showed great restraint in not pepper-spraying the crowd.

Marching and chanting are nothing. The regime in power is not human in their hearts nor are they or it humane in the mind.

Your little march means nothing. If you want to win this nation, it will take a new weapon or tool.

Beware of serving the beasts of USA government. They are not our allies. Applaud when the regime is destroyed. Dead or alive.

The next time I see them forcefully inject an innocent person or taser them, I hope I am there to watch them or it be set them on fire, or have their bosses executed.

We are no longer allies in the USA. We are not united. Best of luck on your west coast nations once the global war erupts and the regime is laying on the roadside dead and in hiding.

The smaller nations will fare better once the internal wars subside.

Never again serve and if they or it wants you as servant, consider serving or foreign military or enlisting as a suicide bomber.

We are no longer allies. They drew first blood, remember that.

Mobile Audit Club

If there was a video of some kid getting hancuffed while in the library it would have made youtube or at minimum the poster of this article would have provided a link to it. All he did provide was footage of the protestors, which typically march weekly event at UC