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I consider this an excellent example of students using the power of
the net for political purposes and that it was extremely useful for
teachers to see the immediacy of how fast communication happens.

On the Net: outraged bloggers and blog aggregators turned the
fracas at UCLA into nationwide news. Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a
23-year-old senior was apparently leaving the library anyway.
The video, which was posted almost immediately on YouTube, shows an
officer repeatedly shooting the student (identified by the Los
Angeles Times as Mostafa Tabatabainejad) with a Taser as he
screams in agony and rage and other students try to intervene.
What appears to be an outrageous use of a "taser" against a
proposed UCLA student in Powell.
Filmed and up on YouTube and then links to UCLA's response:
followed by a press release by the police themselves.
Amnesty International estimates Tasers have caused 120 deaths
and there are known long term health effects.
The student appears to have retained a high profile lawyer that
intends to file charges against the police.
Students are citizens and this is an example of the Emergence of
Citizen’s Media.

Karen Ellis
Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com