Family adjusting to Ahmed Mohamed's sudden fame as police announce no charges for clock deemed 'hoax

[brooklynite]

Source: Dallas Morning News

The Irving police chief said charges won't be filed against Ahmed Mohamed, the MacArthur High School freshman arrested Monday after he brought what school officials and police described as a “hoax bomb” on campus.

At a press conference this morning, Chief Larry Boyd said the device -- confiscated by an English teacher despite the teen's insistence that it was a clock -- was “certainly suspicious in nature.”

“The student showed the device to a teacher, who was concerned that it was possibly the infrastructure for a bomb,” Boyd said.

School officers questioned Ahmed about the device and why Ahmed had brought it to school. Boyd said Ahmed was then handcuffed “for his safety and for the safety of the officers” and taken to a juvenile detention center. He was later released to his parents, Boyd said.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-family-adjusting-to-ahmed-mohamed-s-sudden-fame-as-police-announce-no-charges-for-clock-deemed-hoax-bomb.ece

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Can you say "lawsuit"?

[cantbeserious]

1. Right Wing America - Killing Ingenuity And Creativity - Daily - What A Message For Children

eom

[yeoman6987]

40. The only think kinda strange is why take it to English?

Keep it in locker til science? Otherwise fully overblown.

[GeorgeGist]

42. to show off ...

it's a kid thing.

[yeoman6987]

44. Excellent point!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks.

[pnwmom]

47. Apparently you haven't gotten the word. Many schools have gotten rid of lockers

out of security concerns.

But even in the schools that do have them, they're often not located in a location convenient for every class.

In this boy's case, he first took the clock to his science/engineering teacher, but he still had it with him in English class.

[d_r]

61. it was in his backbpack in english class

and the alarm beeper went off.

[japple]

62. His science teacher told him to keep it to himself. Probably knew what the reaction

would be if anyone else saw it. Then the alarm went off in another class. What I want to know is why the science teacher wasn't consulted and, if he/she were consulted, why science teacher couldn't reassure teachers/admins/police that the poor kid just had a homemade clock.

[muntrv]

2. Ahmed should have brought an assault rifle. Then no one would have paid attention.

[Shadowflash]

9. Truth.

Unfortunately.

[Aristus]

23. Correction: If he had been WHITE, and brought an assault rifle, no one would have paid attention.

He's Muslim, so he would have been shot to death instead of handcuffed. In Texas, guns are for whites only, I'll bet...

[valerief]

34. Bingo! That condition is all important in We'reNumberOneInStupidityLand. nt

[pangaia]

58. My thoughts as well.

Suppose HE was a pale, pale white SHE with blonde pigtails and freckles?
BOMB ???

I.... don't .......THINK.....so....

[HassleCat]

3. kid is kind of a hero now (eom)

[L. Coyote]

4. The whole world is reacting. Mark Zuckerberg "Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook ...."

?1442426783

Mark Zuckerberg 40 mins ago · Palo Alto, CA
Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I'd love to meet you. Keep building.
https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102373304096361

[valerief]

35. Love the most interesting man pic!!!

[peacebird]

5. No charge, police should fear the lawsuit. They refused to allow a minor to call his parents

And interogated him without them present.

[nilram]

15. Good one. I hope they sue the police, the teachers, the principal,

the school, the school district, everybody who messed up. And then move out. Texas doesn't deserve them and they don't deserve Texas.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Dumb and Dumber

What a teacher!

What a redneck place!

[think]

7. just heard that Chris Hayes is interviewing Ahmed tonight. /nt

[malthaussen]

8. I'm surprised they couldn't find something to charge him with.

Didn't he, you know, twitch a finger when he was arrested? That's resisting!

-- Mal

[gademocrat7]

10. Stupidity abounds in Irving, Texas.

I hope all those involved are sued into bankruptcy.

[Javaman]

33. me to.

Irving is well known, due to the mayor, as being a city of stupid.

[leftynyc]

11. Cops are screwed

Wouldn't let him call his parents and no lawyer present. They're fucked.

[Jesus Malverde]

45. You mean the taxpayer is fucked.

It's not like any settlements will come out of the police budget.

It appears the mayor is obsessed with sharia. Maybe she's got the whole town going crazy.

[leftynyc]

48. Shrug

If they have an objection to the way the police handled it, it's time to speak up right now. Meanwhile, the mayor is defending the cops.

[sarge43]

12. "hoax"?

Hoax: An act intended to deceive or trick.

He didn't try to deceive anyone. He was completely honest at every point. School, PD, at least try to be as honest as this young man. You screwed the pooch, 'fess up to it.

Yeah, I can say lawsuit

[Rose Siding]

24. Jeeze they put "hoax bomb" in the headline!

That's some seriously deceptive ass covering right there.

More like hoax educators.

[sarge43]

27. Well, I'll give the Dallas News some slack on that.

Apparently, it was quoting the school and PD - standard CYA on their part.

[LibDemAlways]

13. If he was a blond, blue-eyed

freckle faced kid named Christian who wore a big cross around his neck this never would have happened. The teacher would have applauded him for his ingenuity and sent him on his way.

[all american girl]

14. The police were wanting him to say it was a "hoax bomb"

so they could arrest him. Good on him. Not many adults could have stood up to the pressure of five cops grilling them...

All I have to say is that these grown ass people have never been around kids who like computer things, tear apart and put back together. My son probably has 3-4 raspberry pies hang off his wall, in his dorm room, with cords coming out of them....computer stuff that I don't get

[Kelvin Mace]

16. Ahmed was then handcuffed “for his safety and for the safety of the officers”

Really? That's what you are going with?

[w0nderer]

30. right

how well trained these police officers have to be to worry so much about a relatively slight built 14 year old

[Taitertots]

43. It's SOP. All cops do this.

Even your friends and family.

[Kelvin Mace]

65. Does it make me safer because the cop is less likely to just execute me

if I am handcuffed, since I may fall over in a way that will make it hard for him to claim I shot myself?

Oh, wait...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/handcuffed-black-youth-shot-himself-death-says-coroner-n185016

[4lbs]

55. I've watched hundreds of episodes of "Cops". I've heard that saying many, many times.

"I'm putting this handcuffs on you. It doesn't mean you are under arrest... yet. It's just for your safety and mine."

I've always wondered why ME being in handcuffs would make ME safer?

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. Like an invitation to the White House from the President:

Ahmed Mohamed: Barack Obama invites detained Muslim teenager to take his clock to the White House

President Barack Obama has voiced his support for the 14-year-old Muslim teenager arrested by police after taking a homemade clock to school.

As reports said police from Irving, Texas, had decided they would not charge Ahmed Mohamed with making a hoax bomb - as his family had been told they might - Mr Obama invited the teenager to take his clock to the White House.

"Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?," he said.

"We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ahmed-mohamed-barack-obama-invites-detained-muslim-teenager-to-take-his-clock-to-the-white-house-10504277.html

I don't think a lawsuit would be the right thing. I think he should take his bow as an admired teenager with approval from thinking people. Be gracious in victory.

[brush]

52. Nah! I say sue their bigoted asses. All of them. They'll think twice next time . . .

before arresting and handcuffing a small, slightly built, brown-skinned kid with a clock and Muslim name who committed no crime whatsoever.

[blackspade]

18. Are journalists these days fucking stupid?

IT WAS NOT A HOAX BOMB. IT WAS A FUCKING CLOCK.

[Pacifist Patriot]

20. That wasn't the journalists.

They were quoting the cops and a teacher. But your smilie is still highly appropriate.

[pangaia]

60. If they were journalists they would have dome a little...

JOURNALISM and found what the fuck really went down.
There are no journalists left.. It is a dead profession...

..................... well maybe 2 or 3..

[LynneSin]

19. Seriously, if someone was actually building a real bomb

would they bring it to school as a 'show & tell'.

No they'd hide it somewhere so it would blow up something.

These people were idiots.

[Taitertots]

63. Would they build the clock part from a printed circuit board?

With a giant lcd screen.

The whole thing is blowing my mind.

[Rose Siding]

21. That school district calls the coverage "unbalanced"

Wonder where they learned that word


"Unfortunately, the information that has been made public to this point is very unbalanced."

http://www.irvingisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=7900&ViewID=047E6BE3-6D87-4130-8424-D8E4E9ED6C2A&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=20426&PageID=1&GroupByField=&GroupYear=0&GroupMonth=0&Tag=

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Oh boy- reading the police statement:

" The student only would say it was a clock and was not forthcoming at that time about any other details. "

That's because it was just a clock, you dumbass timeserver! What other 'details' could he have given?

[Rose Siding]

32. Even now they call it a "hoax bomb"

Ahmed's sisters said he was trying not to cry when he was at the police station.

We have an overwhelming, nationwide response to this to inspire us though.

[elleng]

22. POTUS said:

"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.'

[BumRushDaShow]

25. "Ahmed was then handcuffed “for his safety..."

That's what white racists and supremacists do to POC in the guise of being charitable.

[4lbs]

57. I mentioned this in a post above. Heard it said many times on "Cops."

Always wondered how ME being in handcuffs made ME safer?

[Politicalboi]

28. No charges, but hopefully a lawsuit

With the school or just that stupid teacher, and the police dept.

[Dr Rise]

29. Ahhhhhhhh

TEXAS!

[Javaman]

31. Hoax???

these bastards in that town just can't suck it up and give an apology, can they?

fuckers.

[L. Coyote]

36. I can hear it now, "We're sorry we mistook you for a Muslim terrorist."

"We thought all Muslims over the age of ten are terrorists, but now we know better. We are going to focus on adult Muslims."

[LibertyLover]

37. Didn't Irving Texas school district

build an expensive stadium for high school football within the past few years? I vaguely recall something about it. I hope this family winds up owning it.

[rocktivity]

41. Something about their using crap concrete -- I remember

It was in Allen, Texas:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1204&pid=41393


rocktivity

[rocktivity]

38. Hoax bomb?

Isn't that when you have something that you know isn't a bomb, but you deliberate SAY that it's a bomb?

Does than mean if he had said it was a bomb and it turned out not be a bomb, they would have let him go?


rocktivity

[flying-skeleton]

39. The boy was handcuffed for his own safety ............ WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[retrowire]

51. Yeah when I was handcuffed once I understood the context of that warning.

It's so you don't do anything brash in the current traumatic scenario of being arrested and taken against your will.

Even an innocent man might try and jump out of a moving cop car, he could injure himself.

IN THIS scenario though... The entire thing is bonkers as hell.

[smirkymonkey]

46. I think it's pretty cool also that he's not into social media and that his sisters had to set up an

account for him. "We're trending number one", they cried! Not that there is anything wrong w/ social media, but it's nice to see a kid who spends most of his time inventing, tinkering and learning instead of following the crowd.

Now I would like to see MIT extend him an offer to come out for a visit. They have this great program called "Spark/Splash" for kids that my nephew attended. Spark is for kids in grades 7 & 8, Splash for kids 9 - 12. I think he would be a great addition!

[retrowire]

49. Sure lemme try...

Laaahh...

Lawwww

LAW

LAWSSUUU

Litigation!

Crap, I messed up didn't I?

[lunatica]

54. It's spelled lahhsoot

LOL

[dembotoz]

50. if seen as a terror threat, can the cops sorta ignore the constitution for a bit

remember the laws were set up under bush cheney

damn lucky the kid was not waterboarded and disappeared to gitmo


cause the know the tv show 24 really happened

[ut oh]

53. I don't know what to say at this point other than...

Fucking racists trying to cover their asses...

They should all be ashamed for their abhorrent behavior.

[pangaia]

56. " Boyd said Ahmed was then handcuffed “for his safety and for the safety of the officers”

What the fuck is that shit?

Yes, the words fuck and shit.
REPUBLICANS are fucking shit! They should be illegal.

[Not Sure]

59. Nothing to see here... move along...

The Irving police chief said charges won't be filed against Ahmed Mohamed, the MacArthur High School freshman arrested Monday after he brought what school officials and police described as a “hoax bomb” on campus.

Yeah, no shit. What a fucking joke.

As much as I love Texas *the place* (I live just down the street from where this went down) there is a certain choking feeling of having to share space with so many intellectually small, politically stunted and deeply paranoid morons.

[tammywammy]

64. Maybe he has a chance to get into TAMS at UNT. n/t

[Jeneral2885]

66. If it was

You have five policemen around a "supposed bomb". Great way to threaten lives.

Also, if the teacher taught it was, why wasn't the school evacuated? Still got time to call the police?