Margarita Pillado

Role
Los Angeles Pierce College Academic Senate president, speaking at its April 13 meeting
Statement date

"she has done nothing wrong"

Source and context

Interview

Pierce College faculty respond to Tahmasebi’s detention (opens in a new tab)Original coverage of the April 13 Academic Senate meeting and directly attributed faculty comments

About this source

Original campus reporting and meeting photograph support attribution of faculty responses. Pillado’s meeting date is April 13; other utterance dates are not separately verified. Background arrest-date and citizenship wording conflict with stronger sources and are not imported as facts. Individual faculty comments are not a formally adopted college or union position.

Before the quotation

The Roundup covered Pillado’s remarks at the Academic Senate meeting and included a photograph from it.

After the quotation

Her statement was qualified by reference to their knowledge and public records. It is not proof of criminal-history status or U.S. citizenship, and not a formally adopted Senate resolution. Meeting date verified; exact time unknown.

Challenged the characterization
How this statement is classified

The statement disputes the claimed justification, characterization or causal account without converting the speaker’s assertion into a finding.

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People and groups discussed
Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi

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