Denise Robb

Role
Los Angeles Pierce College political science professor
Statement date

"now it’s happened to one of us"

Source and context

Interview

Pierce College follow-up interviews on Tahmasebi’s detention (opens in a new tab)Denise Robb’s directly attributed comments and Aracely Aguiar’s account of class arrangements

About this source

Original campus interviews published May 12, updated June 25. Used only for attributed adult faculty and administrator comments, not the report’s inconsistent child-age or arrest-date details. Exact interview dates are unknown. Broad detention-condition criticism is opinion and allegation, not verified findings about this family.

Before the quotation

The Roundup interviewed Robb about the detention and faculty support letters.

After the quotation

Her inferences about the family’s relationship to Iran’s government and general detention-condition allegations are not established facts. The report’s inconsistent child-age and arrest-date details are not relied upon. The source publication date is used because the exact interview or utterance date is not separately verified.

Condemned
How this statement is classified

The speaker explicitly criticizes the action or its effects in the surrounding directly attributed statement.

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Published here
People and groups discussed
Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi

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