August 17, 2007

UCLA Police Officers Used Excessive Force in Taser Incident, Independent Report Concludes

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

Police officers at the University of California at Los Angeles used excessive force and poor judgment last November when they repeatedly used a Taser stun gun to subdue a student, according to an independent report released this month.

UCLA officials commissioned the independent investigation in response to the controversy that ensued after police officers used a Taser on Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a student of Iranian descent who refused to show his student identification card in the