9th grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

[Michelle]

Edit - oops, there is already a post on this.


While recognizing there are 2 sides to every story and all the facts may or may not be here, this kid is in student council. At my HS you had to be well liked by peers to be in Stu.Co. A positive leader. A lot of nerds and a few popular people, but mostly goody goodies.

If a white kid in StuCo named Ethan, Elliot or Evan walked in with this same clock would he have been arrested? My brother took things apart and played with circuit boards and stuff all the time. That is how an inventive and engineering mind works. And this kid gets ARRESTED and interrogated for it. Sounds like paranoia pushed the school overboard here. Way to teach a kid a lesson in racial profiling early on!

Bolded text below is mine.


www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-9th-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school-so-you-tried-to-make-a-bomb.ece

Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking

homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to

make a bomb?'


By AVI SELK 
Staff Writer

Published: 15 September 2015 07:16 PM

Updated: 16 September 2015 10:17 AM


Update at 10:09 a.m. Wednesday: Irving ISD officials and Irving police

will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Irving Criminal

Justice Center. We will continue to update this story as new developments

emerge.

Update at 9:32 a.m. Wednesday: After the story of Ahmed Mohamed's

arrest for bringing a homemade digital clock to school went viral Tuesday,

triggering an outpouring of support for him on social media, Ahmed

tweeted a thank-you early Wednesday.


Original story:

IRVING — 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.

Box of circuit boards

A box full of circuit boards sits at the foot of Ahmed’s small bed in central

Irving. His door marks the border where the Mohamed family’s cramped

but lavishly decorated house begins to look like the back room at

RadioShack.

“Here in high school, none of the teachers know what I can do,

” Ahmed

said, fiddling with a cable while a soldering iron dangled from the shelf
behind him.

He loved robotics club in middle school and was searching for a similar

niche in his first few weeks of high school.

[2curlydogs]

pandce.proboards.com/thread/477588/muslim-arrested-police-homemade-clock

[Michelle]

Basically, if your name is Ahmed or Mohammed, and you like circuitry, you MUST be interested in bomb building.

They interrogated this kid. Without his parents even being notified that there was a concern.

assholes!

[Michelle]

Sept 16, 2015 10:42:05 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

pandce.proboards.com/thread/477588/muslim-arrested-police-homemade-clock

oops - I skimmed but somehow missed that one.
thx

[Aquatica]

Wow, that is extremely over the top. Way to crush kids from inventing interesting projects.