{"id":909,"date":"2007-08-24T20:36:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T04:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2009-03-06T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T21:02:26","slug":"justice-dept-sikhd-on-carlsbad-restaurants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Justice Dept Sikh’d on Carlsbad Restaurants"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Dave Bindra<\/strong>, 22, tried to get into Carlsbad’s Ocean House Restaurant and Grill<\/a><\/strong> on July 27 wearing a turban, he was stopped at the door because of rules against do-rags, beanies and other “head wear associated with street gangs,” according to the San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

. . . when he explained to Ocean House manager Steve Town<\/strong> that his turban was not a do-rag, but a religious expression that he never removes in public, Town said, “ ‘Beanie, do-rag or turban, you still have a towel on your head and you’re not going in.’ ” . . . Town denies he made the “towel” remark and said Bindra and his friends were denied entry because they were being aggressive.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bindra was told the same thing at the Coyote Bar<\/strong>. Then the religious man and his friends went back to the Ocean House and got into a yelling match with management. Now, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund<\/a><\/strong> has complained to the US Justice Department<\/a><\/strong> and a San Diego law professor thinks Bindra might have a strong case. . . The story has even been picked up by The Times of India<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

[Link: <\/strong>San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Dave Bindra, 22, tried to get into Carlsbad’s Ocean House Restaurant and Grill on July 27 wearing a turban, he was stopped at the door because of rules against do-rags, beanies and other “head wear associated with street gangs,” according to the San Diego Union Tribune. . . . when he explained to Ocean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,32,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4764,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/4764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}