Resources for research into the tazer incident at UCLA's Powell Library.

If you live in Southern California, or even in the rest of the world, you may have heard about the incident last week at UCLA's Powell Library. You may have even seen video of the incident on YouTube.

Late night on November 14th, a student in Powell Library on the UCLA campus refused to show his ID. This is a posted campus policy. Apparently something happened between the police and the student, miscommunication ensued, and the student was shocked with a tazer multiple times over seven minutes.

This post is intended to disseminate all of the information that I have tracked down regarding this incident, and in it I will be as unbiased as possible. I'll save my commentary for a different post.

UCLA Chancellor Norman Abrams' initial statement on the incident:
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7513

Chancellor Abrams' updated statement:
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7521

Press conference remarks by UCPD Police Chief Karl Ross and Chancellor Abrams:
http://www.ucla.edu/bulletin/remarks-nov17pressconf.html

Chancellor Abrams' announcement of an independent investigation by Merrick Bobb:
http://www.ucla.edu/bulletin/powell-incident.html

Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC), the company that will conduct the investigation:
http://www.parc.info

The YouTube video of the incident:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g7zlJx9u2E

There is additional information and articles available, just use Google. These are the basics though, straight from the horse's mouth. I will post my commentary shortly in a separate post.