9th grader arrested and handcuffed for building..........A CLOCK

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What is wrong with people... ? This Muslimophobia has gotten out of control.. Simply ridiculous

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...ice-officers-who-arrested-him?detail=facebook

On September 14, ninth-grade engineering whiz and NASA fanboy Ahmed Mohamed was confronted, interrogated, handcuffed, arrested, and jailed after bringing a homemade clock to school to show his engineering teacher. Within hours, he was in a room alone with five police officers, being accused of building a bomb.From the day he was arrested, Mohamed has been clear that he never pretended it was a bomb, never alluded to it being a bomb, and didn't make it to look like a bomb. In their latest statement, the police confirmed as much, but the rest of their statement is so ignorant, so mind-boggling, so perplexing, that we now know that Mohamed was, without a doubt, the smartest person in the room when he was arrested.


First, the police spokesman said:

“We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb,” McLellan said. “He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation.”Asked what broader explanation the boy could have given, the spokesman explained:
“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”
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But then, it got worse. Way worse. The police are basically claiming that they arrested Mohamed because while under interrogation, he simply refused to admit that his homemade clock wasn't something else. You have to read the ridiculousness below to believe it.


Irving Police spokesman Officer James McLellan told 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 teenager did that because, well, it was a clock, he said. [...] McLellan told the Dallas Morning News that Ahmed insisted the device was a clock, and that police have no reason to think it was dangerous and "no information that he claimed it was a bomb."
Still, police wanted "a broader explanation" from the teen, McLellan said.
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Any way you look at it, his is a terrible situation that Mohamed has been put in. Stay tuned for more updates as we cover this injustice closely.

 

I'd love to see a picture of the clock but yeah, in this instance it sounds pretty crazy. Poor kid probably just wanted to show off how smart he is but made a bad choice of projects in this day and age. Probably would have been less hassle had he come up with a pocket-sized fusion reactor.
 
SifuPhil said:
I'd love to see a picture of the clock but yeah, in this instance it sounds pretty crazy. Poor kid probably just wanted to show off how smart he is but made a bad choice of projects in this day and age. Probably would have been less hassle had he come up with a pocket-sized fusion reactor.
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He made a bad decision for a Muslim kid... a White Christian wouldn't have had a problem. Here's the pic. It might look like a bomb... but when have you ever seen a bomb that has a plug to plug into an electrical outlet?


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Ah, okay, thanks for the pic. Now I can see what the hub-bub is about. The cops probably didn't even notice the plug - they probably looked right at the electronics in the case and, not knowing any better, figured "Oooh - electrical stuff - Muslim kid - must be a bomb". :rolleyes:
 
Pappy said:
It was his school principal that called the cops. This is just so wrong in so many ways. You should have seen the things we use to take to school. Good freaking grief.
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My son used to rig up Chrystal radios with copper wire and all sorts of dials and switches... and bring them to school.. but that was then... of course he wouldn't fit the profile.
 
Even young kids have been known to take knives and guns to school and I guess that it is better to be safe than sorry in these days of school massacres - it does seem extreme to have handcuffed him but if he had been aggressive and done someone harm and they hadn't prevented it we would all be complaining about the police not doing their job - sometimes they are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
 
Caution, paranoia and zealousness are all different things that should not be used at once. This is scary. This is what stumps kids learning, for starters you have start them with basic items, kids have to experiment and go through some trial and error to learn. Before you know every adult will have to justify every trip to Home Depot. This is absurd.
 
Did the police bring up his being muslim as a factor in their decision to arrest the boy, or did the news media decide that his being muslim was "yet another example" of police racial profiling?
 
tnthomas said:
Did the police bring up his being muslim as a factor in their decision to arrest the boy, or did the news media decide that his being muslim was "yet another example" of police racial profiling?
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I think your right, Thomas. The media probably added the Muslim factor to enhance the story. We just had a girl in a local school be suspended for bringing aspirin to school to help her through her headaches that she gets when she has menstrual cramps. The paper did not mention her ethnicity, but had it been a black kid, the media may have made a point to suggest to the readers that because it was a black kid, illegal drugs were suspected. It just helps to add to the story, if they put some type of anti-sentiment to it.

BTW, the girl was suspended for three days because of the school's zero tolerance for any contraband found in a student's possession. I guess aspirin is now a contraband, but anyway, the school board passed the rule some years back and so as not to make teachers and administrators have to determine what is and what is not OK as far as what drugs may or may not be in a student's possession, they decided that any drug found in a student's possession and if no letter from a doctor is supplied as to why the student has the medicine, it shall be considered contraband. The student must also take the medicine and letter to the school nurse and she/he will administer the medicine according to the directions given in the letter.
 
Why would ANY child, White, Black, Christian, or Muslim be arrested and handcuffed and dragged into a police station for building a clock and bringing it to school?
 
Some say these militant zero tolerances policies are as much to blame as anything. Uh-oh, one peanut, your suspended. A cigarette, nail clippers, unpopular t shirt etc. Throw in the fact a lot of teachers look at students as the enemy. They are there for a job/pay check only. I know several. They work at it but it is a chore, they are counting time til retirement.
 
Falcon said:
Some of these "babies" have been known to strap on explosives and walk into an enclosure, killing hundreds

of people including BABIES.
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That's why you check out the device and not detain a juvenile without proof for an arrest let alone actual charges. Calling the police to check the clock is one thing but without proof of a threat, bomb threat, mischief why was he detained? If violated school policy suspend him.
 
Falcon said:
Some of these "babies" have been known to strap on explosives and walk into an enclosure, killing hundreds

of people including BABIES.
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Yes... the Terrorists have already WON... as I said.. we are terrified of anything Muslim. They have succeeded in terrorizing us..
 
WhatInThe said:
That's why you check out the device and not detain a juvenile without proof for an arrest let alone actual charges. Calling the police to check the clock is one thing but without proof of a threat, bomb threat, mischief why was he detained? If violated school policy suspend him.
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I am doubtful that if he were a little blonde blue eyed Baptist, he would have been handcuffed and hauled away with his "bomb" impounded as evidence.
 
This is what happens when paranoia meets special powers. How long before seven and eight hear old babies are perceived as the enemy? Do you want to live in an us versus them society, especially when at times law enforcement can't discern the difference? Who protects us from our "protectors?" Believe me, shrinks will tell you paranoia spreads under a jackboot society. How long before any of us could be termed problematic, and the ministry of disinformation places targets on our backs? Democracy without diversity is an oxymoron.
 
Kids can kill. Bombs certainly can be powered by AC. No cop can look at that device and rule in or out a possible bomb unless he is one of the few trained in bomb detection. I smell the anti-cop syndrome here. As far as I can remember in WW2, young children with bombs used to run at allied troops and it was a sad but infrequent event to have to shoot them. It is a new era, with a new enemy who doesn't conform to the usual, no declarations, no uniforms, all sexes and ages, what you brought to school in the old days no longer applies. Had that been an explosive device and caused death and injury, would we then call the cops remiss and say they didn't protect us? Believe me, this was the best possible outcome for everyone involved.
 
Excuse me, but isn't it missing a key bomb ingredient? Like explosives, maybe? I remember when I was a kid, school sometimes felt like prison and now apparently they are. Can the kids bring anything to school? Why not subject them to cavity searches? You can stab people with a #2 pencil. How can anyone learn in that kind of environment? In a world where courage is a necessary, how much fear are we instilling in their minds? The terrorists are winning every time this happens. Fear is doing immeasurably more damage to our society than any bombs ever could.
 
Underock1 said:
Excuse me, but isn't it missing a key bomb ingredient? Like explosives, maybe? I remember when I was a kid, school sometimes felt like prison and now apparently they are. Can the kids bring anything to school? Why not subject them to cavity searches? You can stab people with a #2 pencil. How can anyone learn in that kind of environment? In a world where courage is a necessary, how much fear are we instilling in their minds? The terrorists are winning every time this happens. Fear is doing immeasurably more damage to our society than any bombs ever could.
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Explosives can be visually difficult to spot. How 'bout the shoe bomber that could have crashed a crowded aircraft? Take another look at that device and tell me it couldn't have plastic explosives concealed in the lining of that case or any number of other places.
 

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