: Name: Paul Hyland; Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

I'm the executive producer for the web site of a nonprofit publisher of education news, information, and resources, I play in a band, and I work on analyzing and influencing the impact of computers on society. I love my partner in life and my daughter very much.

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Stories about cool events I've attended, musings about social media and other technology, and commentary about people, issues, ideas, whatever. I've had a web site since 1994, at my own domain since 1997, and switched it to blog format in 2005. Now, in 2008, I've added labels, shuffled things around a bit and fixed some style and UI quirks - hence 2.1. Watch for more widgets and microformats....

Friday, November 17, 2006

UCLA Student Tasered by UCLA Police

Pretty freaky - what's worse, the police state, ethnic profiling, or the use of tasers at all?

More coverage:

Articles on this incident:
1 2 from Daily Bruin
LA Times TV 2 News

Other amateur video that seems to show LAPD brutality:
Guardian UK LA Times

Response from civil liberty groups (courtesy of Marc Rotenberg):
ACSBlog CAIR

Background on police use of tasers, which has resulted in deaths:
1 2 from Amnesty International

(Thanks to Politech for the links.)

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CdNgoC0cE

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