high school freshman arrested after taking homemade clock to school

[XtremelyBaneful]

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.

He loved robotics club in middle school and was searching for a similar niche in his first few weeks of high school. So he decided to do what he’s always done: He built something.

Ahmed’s clock was hardly his most elaborate creation. He said he threw it together in about 20 minutes before bed on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front. He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.

“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.

“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”

The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.

They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”

Ahmed felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name — one of the most common in the Muslim religion. But the police kept him busy with questions.

Police led Ahmed out of MacArthur about 3 p.m., his hands cuffed behind him and an officer on each arm. A few students gaped in the halls. He remembers the shocked expression of his student counselor — the one “who knows I’m a good boy.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/comm...ted-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

 

[terry78]

Bombs in real life don't look like cartoon or movie style bombs with ****ing counters on them.

 

[jokesonm3]

#IStandWithAhmed


Poor kid.

 

[Rocketman]

You have GOT to be kidding me.

 

[Matt Mortem]

This is pure, undiluted racism. I'd like to say I don't believe it, but I do. I do believe it. It's disgusting. Could the parents pursue a defamation suit? Surely something can be done to right this wrong.

 

[Pink Ranger]

This is awesome, you got to unfairly prosecute a Muslim and a budding scientist at the same time. That's considered a 2-for-1 deal in a red state, right?

 

[KevanG]

Considering how sue happy some states are and how blatant this is, I'm sure they could get a good lawsuit going.

 

[terry78]

That city just sealed their fate, man. They may as well be the new Ferguson.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Frikin idiot's.

 

[DeadPresident]

"Yup, That's who I thought it was".

What the ****?

Also, what kind of ****ing sense does it make for someone who thinks a device is dangerous and explosive to keep it? It also makes zero sense to arrest him before ascertaining exactly what it is. This sounds fishy, either it's fake - or it's one of the most blatant cases of racism and prejudice I've heard of.

 

[CaptainWagner]

I'm not so confident this has anything to do with race, just idiot administrators enforcing their brain dead "zero tolerance" policy. The geniuses probably didn't even look at the supposed bomb before they had the kid hauled off in handcuffs.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

All I can say is f*** these people, f*** them so goddamn much.

 

[terry78]

I mean even if they would do the same thing with a white kid, it looks WAY too bad at this point. If dude hadn't said the "yup, that's who I thought it was" line they may have been able to wriggle out of it.

 

[SomeOldGuy]

The copsplaining in the update to the original story in the first post would be hilarious if it weren't so infuriating:

Update at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday: At a press conference this morning, Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for bringing "a hoax bomb" to school -- and not a clock, as Mohamed said he repeatedly told his teachers.

But, Boyd said, "we are confident it's not an explosive device" intended to cause "alarm." Rather, he said, officers determined it was "a hoax bomb" and a "naive accident."

As a result, he said, no charges will be filed against Ahmed, and "the case is considered closed." He also said "the reaction would have been the same regardless" of the student's skin color.

The story says they are talking to a lawyer. I hope they sue the city into bankruptcy.

 

[DeadPresident]

To be honest "Yup. That's who I thought it was" can apply to anyone.

White? Crazy, mentally ****ed up kid. Black? Inner city gangster. Muslim? Terrorist. Asian? Disturbed immigrant.

Unfortunately there have been enough violent incidents in schools for every race to have a stereotype developed around it. In this case the teacher, who is obviously a ****ing moron, thought it was a bomb so the fact that the kid looks Muslim factored into it.

Just another scenario that proves that diversity doesn't "just work". Honestly instead of wasting time with some bull**** shop class why don't they make diversity socializing a class people can take. Now this poor kid is either going to go back to a school where everyone will know about this, or his folks will have to move him. The employees of that school responsible for this are a disgrace.

If it was me I'd sue the **** out of the school, it's defamatory at the very least - if not blatantly discriminatory racial profiling.

 

[Lencho01]

If I were the kid, I would've asked for the names and badge numbers of all those cops so the world could know they were dumb enough to believe bombs look like the ones on film and TV. Same foe the teachers.

 

[DeadPresident]

Look, IEDs can look similar to that. But for **** sake if the teacher was so worried why didn't they just evacuate the class and call a bomb squad? I mean she was so worried about it she confiscated it and they had an exchange about whether or not it looked like a bomb? This sounds like an Adam Sandler movie.

It makes no damn sense to keep the supposedly lethal explosive device and arrest the kid without dealing with the supposed danger first.

 

[Parker Wayne]

Disgraceful.

 

[Fallen Angel]

https://***********/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.

 

[Kane52630]

https://***********/POTUS/status/644193755814342656

 

[Snow Queen]

Texas? Yup. That's where I thought it was.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

Mannnnnnnn! i hope he SUE THE ^&*( OUTTA WHOMEVER!!
i dont believe in frivolous lawsuits that clog up our judicial system but this kid has a legitimate one!

 

[Teelie]

This is not just blatant racism but blatant stupidity too. Everyone has seen a movie bomb and knows what it looks like and saw this and did not think maybe it really was just a clock. Where was the explosive for this "bomb" located at? What idiot, suicide bomber or not, puts a timer on it with an alarm to tell everyone it is going off?

A real bomb from a real suicide bomber would not look like something out of a cartoon.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

A kid that gets good grades and was involved with robotics gets this kind of response but littles bastahs that continually disrupt class, are lazy, and disrespectful get far more kid glove type type treatment... Great Rao...

 

[Teelie]

Those kids who disrupt class can't be properly disciplined because mommy and daddy will throw a fit demanding their little boy (or girl) isn't that kind of child and threaten to sue the school.

This kid is brown and has a funny name with a "suspcious device" so it's okay to arrest him and call him a terrorist because obviously he's going to blatantly announce his intent to blow up the school.