Posted on 09/16/2015 6:26:25 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
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 Ahmeds 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 its a clock.
In the meantime, Ahmeds 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
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
But IF this kid is innocent, the school and police just made it a little harder for him to believe that the US really is about freedom, our common law traditions, and so forth.
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This headline says it all!
Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After ‘Bomb Hoax’ Incident
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3337567/posts
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/16/440890750/obama-invites-texas-teen-to-white-house-after-bomb-hoax-incident
The Invader in Chief has better optics. The Irvington school and PD “acted stupidly.” And now LEGITIMATE surveillance and caution will be compared to this foolishness.
And they really did act stupidly! You don't leave somebody with his hands cuffed behind his back alone, because if he falls he can't use his hands to break the fall. It's not advisable to interrogate a juvenile without somebody there.
IF we grant the school and the PD a little slack for wondering, “What could the worst case be?” by the same argument we have to rebuke them because they didn't ask what the OTHER worst case could be, the one where they were wrong and ended up giving another Muslim a reason to dislike the US.
And now we have a new definition for “cluster ....”
AND, to “Flor’DUH” we can add “Irvingdumb.”
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