Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?'

[decocker 7,198]

his name is AHMED MOHAMED. there's no way he was just making a clock! islamophobia in irving? PUHLEASE. the best defense is a good offense people, obviously texas knows what's up.

Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday.

Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case.

So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock.

In the meantime, Ahmed’s been suspended, his father is upset and the Council on American-Islamic Relations is once again eyeing claims of Islamophobia in Irving.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

poor kid.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Idiot bigots.

[decocker 7,198]

Idiot bigots.

in particular, cops questioning a child for hours without the presence of a guardian is disgusting.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

I pray this doesn't kill the spark inside of the young man.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

With the settlement this kid is going to get, I expect he'll be able to self-fund four years at MIT.

[decocker 7,198]

With the settlement this kid is going to get, I expect he'll be able to self-fund four years at MIT.

i sure hope so. this picture makes my momma bear nerves go haywire.

[TBoneTX 45,583]

cops questioning a child for hours without the presence of a guardian is disgusting.

It's far beyond disgusting.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

[Sousuke 1,214]

https://www.gofundme.com/istandwithahmed

[Jacque67 7,328]

The Mayor(ess) of Irving is backing the police. Good ole Texas!

[TBoneTX 45,583]

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[Operator 1,927]

What have we become?

[Boiler 45,730]

[Jacque67 7,328]

Amazing stuff. His science teacher must have been an idiot.

[decocker 7,198]

taking a picture of the clock, dismantled isn't proof of anything other than paranoia.

the child never presented the clock as a bomb. he didn't walk up to his teacher and say, 'look i built a digital clock, doesn't it look like a bomb?' i've seen the point made over and over, that if the alarmed teacher truly believed it to be a bomb, proper evacuation of the school and a bomb squad??hello? why weren't they called.

What have we become?