Loading ...This whole taser thing just keeps getting more and more sordid. After yesterday’s mostly innocuous sympathy protest on Sproul, The Los Angeles Times has published an article identifying an officer in the taser case.
Read below the jump for the sordid details.
According to the article, officer Terrance Duren has served in the university’s police department for over 18 years. During that tenure, he has shot at a homeless man at a UCLA study hall, allegedly choked someone in front of a frat with his baton, and was once recommended for dismissal. He was also named officer of the year in 2001.
Duren defends his actions very confidently, stating that he’d even like to sit down with students and Muslim student groups to explain his actions at the library.
The article quotes Duren stating that he patrols the area “the same way I would want someone to patrol the neighborhoods where I live.” We don’t have anything to add, except to refer you to a previous reader comment.
Duren is “proud of his actions,” and believes that “Saying one thing and proving it are two different things.” Actually, it appears that YouTube has made saying and proving things more or less equivalent.
The Los Angeles Times: Officer in Taser case Identifed
The Daily Californian: Students Protest Taser Incident
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