A 14-year-old Muslim boy is arrested at his high school in Irving, Texas after a digital clock he had reassembled at home using a pencil case was mistaken by his teacher to be a bomb.
Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman at the time, was questioned by police, detained and led in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center and suspended from school for three days for what authorities called a “hoax bomb,” but what was actually a homemade clock.
Mohamed’s arrest set off a media storm, as many saw the incident as an example of racial profiling. Mohamed became known as the “Clock Boy,” and the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed appeared on social media.
“Cool clock, Ahmed,” President Barack Obama tweeted. “Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.” (Mohamed took him up on the offer, meeting the president in October 2015 during an astronomy night event hosted on the White House’s South Lawn.)
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also chimed in, posting: “You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14-year-old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he took it to school. Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed. Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I’d love to meet you. Keep building.”
Mohamed’s family later filed a lawsuit against the Irving Independent School District, the city of Irving and McArthur High School principal Daniel Cummings for discrimination, but it was thrown out. The teen did not return to the school and the family moved to Qatar soon after the arrest.
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The kid was nibbling at the edges of political correctness and his family were ready to play victim on his behalf !
So the question why was a kid arrested on day one of online class because some dip shit teacher saw a squirt gun and the kid is hit with a weapons charge at school in his own home ! No media attention to this over reach nonsense of school authority and LEO’s can’t stop a looter arsonist or rioter but just doing my job arresting a kid on a weapons charge over a squirt gun
Oh that’s right the kid was white !
That explains it all and LEO’s wonder why the public fail to trust you LMAO get a clue !
“…digital clock he had reassembled at home using a pencil case was mistaken by his teacher to be a bomb.”
History.com needs a history lesson. He made something that looked like a bomb, wires hanging out, ticking etc..He was told by another teacher not to bring it into the classroom because it looked like a bomb. The little fucker brought it in anyway and the cluster ensued.
Oh, and Obama’s a douchebag.