I haven’t had much to add to the mind-numbing story about the UCLA student who was tasered by university police while studying in the library Tuesday night. Frankly, until this morning I hadn’t been able to force myself to watch past the first blood-curdling screams on the video.
Reading the LA Times today I see that the officers involved have not even been put on administrative leave pending completion of the internal and external reviews of the incident. Why not? It’s not clear from the article.
But to hear UCLA’s acting chancellor talk, it looks like the university is managing the perception of a problem rather than the problem itself: “Norman Abrams said he ordered the probe after the university received numerous calls and e-mails from parents and alumni raising concerns about the officers’ actions during the videotaped Tuesday night arrest, which has been widely seen on TV news and the YouTube website.”
The video itself apparently didn’t prompt an outside review, but concerns from alum (i.e., donors) and parents did. Nice.
