UCLA student gets tazed

So it seems that a student of "Middle Eastern" descent got tazed in a UCLA computer lab. I am guessing by now there are probably a million different opinions supporting the student or the police officers floating around the web. From an objective perspective it is true that the situation unfolded rather unfortunately and probably both sides could have done things differently. It is possible that the student felt like he was being a victim of racial profiling. Being a macaca I too have experienced many such untoward incidents which have often made my blood boil. But then creating a ruckus is probably not the best way to handle a situation. Similarly tazing a tazed person for not being able to walk seems extraordinarily illogical to me. However this post is not to discuss the various arguments on who was right or wrong. I would like to divert your attention to what seems to me as an obvious lack of guidelines to the police officers for the use of tazers.

As a non-lethal weapon tazers have proven to be an asset for police force around the world. However there have been multiple cases where victims have complained for having being "unnecessarily" tazed by police officers. In my understanding, officers work around the clock under high stress situations. Without a proper guideline for the use of tazers, officers often inadvertently use them as quick solutions to problems which can otherwise be handled in a less painful but tedious manner. Consider this: If tazers were as lethal as firearms, would the officers have drawn their weapons to make the student leave the school facility? Most probably not. Most probably they would have "escorted" him out of the building which is what happens commonly and should have happened in UCLA too. I think a $100 fine for being a public nuisance is far more effective justice than tazing a student and then facing a high-profile brutality lawsuit.

Am I back???

Well it has been ages since I have blogged. I guess with time things changed too radically for me and blogging slowly but surely slipped down my list of priorities. Therefore does this post mean that blogging has again become my new priority in life; perhaps not. Perhaps I just stumbled on to my blog and realised that it looks too empty, too desolate, and inspite having multiple midterms and scores of papers waiting to be graded I choose to write this post. I remember once somebody told me that I will not continue blogging and it is just those one off things for me. Perhaps he was right, perhaps this will be my only post for the year.

Resident what?

Today was my first RALC session. To the uninformed, to those too old to remember such futile details, and to those who remember branding it as a " duuude, why do you go there?" event in college between the frequent frat events ;) , this is the Residential Assistant Learning Colloquium, place where future leaders a.k.a people who want to live in the dorms for free are trained. All jokes apart, the job of an RA is a lot of responsibility ( looking at my previous RA) and probably to a certain extent fulfilling in its own way. You get to stay in touch with the freshman, otherwise an impossible feat, and learn quite a few tricks in the trade of managing a large group of crazy college freshmen. :) To sum up, its time Donald Trump includes being an RA for a day as one of the tasks in "Apprentice". Magna Corporation and Net Worth will have no idea what hit them.:)

Reprimanded

I think I have successfully stirred a hornet's nest, thanks to my previous blog. In my last blog I chanced to comment on my barber, and for some reason the entire situation snow-balled with every other "conscientious" reader having something to remark about. It seems rather unnatural to me how much people can extrapolate from a simple paragraph. Perhaps I couldn't frame the sentences properly; probably I should remove the blog. Atleast that will save me from replying to completely inane comments. But then will that mean I accept it was wrong on my part to write that?

The entire point of having a blog is to engage in meaningful conversation, rather than dissing each other. Hopefully by removing it I will be able to infuse a little more meaning to this blog. Hopefully my previous "readers" will realize I hold nothing against them.

My first blog

Blogging : A fever which has gripped the world, with every Tom, Dick and now me , deciding to blog, writing down the most intimate details of our lives for others to comment on. Initially I was quite sceptical, curios why blog when it is nothing more than a diary which everybody can peek into. I guess curiosty got the better of me and I too joined the blogging frenzy. Cheers!! My fellow bloggers.