{"id":6454,"date":"2009-05-19T06:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2009-05-19T06:30:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:30:01","slug":"ucla-settles-lawsuit-with-tasered-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/05\/ucla-settles-lawsuit-with-tasered-student\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA settles lawsuit with Tasered student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times<a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/05\/ucla-settles-lawsuit-with-tasered-student.html\">: UCLA settles lawsuit with Tasered student<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCLA said today that the university would pay $220,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a student who was repeatedly stunned with a Taser gun by campus police after he refused to show his identification or leave the school library.<\/p>\n<p>Mostafa Tabatabainejad, then a 23-year-old senior at UCLA, was in the library in November 2006 when a security guard &#8212; conducting a routine check to make sure everyone present after 11 p.m. was a student or otherwise authorized to be there &#8212; asked him to provide identification. Tabatabainejad, a U.S. citizen of Iranian descent, refused, saying later that he thought he was being singled out because of his Middle Eastern appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times: UCLA settles lawsuit with Tasered student UCLA said today that the university would pay $220,000 to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a student who was repeatedly stunned with a Taser gun by campus police after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/05\/ucla-settles-lawsuit-with-tasered-student\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264],"tags":[2543,3819,3818,3354],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-issues","tag-civil-rights","tag-lawsuits","tag-tasering","tag-ucla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6455,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/6455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}