Inside Higher Ed: Ethnic Profiling Alleged at Georgetown
A graduate student filed suit against Georgetown University on Tuesday, alleging discrimination and unlawful search and seizure when campus police detained him while he was attending a friend’s graduation ceremony last year. Two months later, the university issued a report responding to the student’s initial complaint stating that the officers had followed proper policies.
The student, Kambiz Fattahi, is in his final year at Georgetown’s graduate security studies program while also working for the BBC’s Persian Service, according to the complaint. After the incident in May, Fattahi wrote a first-person piece that appeared on the BBC News Web site describing the sequence of events. “I was there to support a graduating classmate. Sitting in the front row among proud parents, family and friends of graduating students, I was captivated” by the words of Bernard Bailyn, the Harvard historian giving the commencement address, he wrote.
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