{"id":2493,"date":"2004-07-31T10:36:12","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/07\/31\/bc-student-detained-by-secret-service\/"},"modified":"2004-07-31T10:36:12","modified_gmt":"2004-07-31T14:36:12","slug":"bc-student-detained-by-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/31\/bc-student-detained-by-secret-service\/","title":{"rendered":"BC Student Detained by Secret Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3620'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sundeep.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"222\" align=\"left\"><em>A Boston College student was detained by the Secret Service for taking<br \/>\n        pictures of his own campus. The student, Sundeep Sahni, is a member of<br \/>\n        the Sikh religion and wears a full turban. In most cases security on<br \/>\n        campus is provided by the BC police, but unlucky Sundeep was unaware<br \/>\n        that the Secret Service were camped out at BC during the DNC.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sahni, 21,<br \/>\n        said he believes he was singled out because of his appearance. At<br \/>\n        one<br \/>\n        point<br \/>\n        during<br \/>\n        the<br \/>\n        searches,<br \/>\n        he said,<br \/>\n        an agent<br \/>\n        told<br \/>\n        him: &quot;I<br \/>\n        don&#8217;t want you pulling an Uzi from your turban.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was the most humiliating experience of my life,&quot; Sahni said.<\/p>\n<p>story and photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2004\/07\/30\/sikh_student_detained_by_secret_service\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boston College student was detained by the Secret Service for taking pictures of his own campus. The student, Sundeep Sahni, is a member of the Sikh religion and wears a full turban. In most cases security on campus is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/07\/31\/bc-student-detained-by-secret-service\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}