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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Ameriacan Muslim Youngster Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, Bring to school, gets arrested

Ameriacan Muslim Youngster Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, Bring to school, gets arrested

Ameriacan Muslim Youngster Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, Bring to school, gets arrested
Ameriacan Muslim Youngster Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, Bring to school, gets arrested

Ameriacan Muslim Youngster Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, Bring to school, gets arrested


(CNN News) When Ahmed Mohamed go to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A youngster with thoughts of becoming an engineer, he wanted to demonstrate his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil box. The 14-year-old's day finished not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was under arrest. "I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I show it to her, she thought it was a danger to her," Ahmed told journalists Wednesday. "It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it."

Ahmed talked to the media gathered on his frontage yard and appeared to wear the same NASA T-shirt he had on in a photograph taken as he was being arrested. In the image, he looks mystified and upset as he's being led out of school in chains. "They arrested me and they told me that I dedicated the crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb," the freshman later explains to WFAA after authorities released him.

Irving Police spokesman Officer James McClellan tell the station, "We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only tell us that it was a clock." The youngster did that because, well, it was a clock, he said. On Wednesday, police announce the teen will not be charged.

Chief Larry Boyd said Ahmed should have been "approaching" by going ahead of the description that what he made was a clock. But Boyd said authorities resolute that the teenager did not mean to alarm any person and the gadget, which the chief called "a homemade experiment," was safe.

Ahmed, who aspire to go to MIT, said he was delighted the charges were dropped and not worried that police didn't apologize for arresting him. After he said he was interrogated by police without an legal representative present, his lawyer, Linda Moreno, told journalists they wouldn't answer any more questions about the official process. Ahmed is suspended until Thursday, he said, but is thinking about transferring to another high school.

Social media reacts
Outrage over the occasion with many saying the student was profiled because he's Muslim -- spread on social media as #IStandWithAhmed started trending global on Twitter with more than 100,000 tweets Tuesday morning. The school's Facebook page is roiling with pointed disapproval of the way the teen was treated, and the hashtag #engineersforahmed is gaining popularity.

President Barrack Obama, independent presidential applicant Hillary Clinton, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and thousands of others are viewing support for Ahmed. "Cool clock, Ahmed," Obama tweeted. "Want to bring it to the White House? We should motivate more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America grand." The President would like the youngster to join him and other scientists next month for the White House's annual Astronomy Night, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday.

Ahmed said Wednesday he was going to the White House. Clinton tweeted that "assumption don't keep us safe" and urge the teen to "keep building." "I think this wouldn't even be a inquiry if his name wasn't Ahmed Mohamed," said Alia Salem of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "He is an excited kid who is very brilliant and wants to share it with his teachers." Many criticize the school on Facebook. Its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, posted his support.

"Having the skill and dream to build something cool should guide to praise, not arrest. The future belongs to people like Ahmed," Zuckerberg wrote. "Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I'd love to meet up you. Keep building."
Mocking Irving Schools' motto, Bill Cain wrote: "'Where children come first' ... to jail in handcuffs. Way to go, Irving."
Chance Williams posted, "Ahmed Mohamed deserve community regret from you, the school administrators, police, and teachers involved in his arrest. I hope he sues, and the school district has to give for his college education."

Ameriacan Muslim Youngster Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, Bring to school, gets arrested


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