Indeed it was. He didn’t get the reaction he had hoped from the first teacher to whom he showed it, who advised him to put it away and not show it to anyone else. So what does he do? He takes it out in English class, has it plugged in so the “alarm” will sound, which it does and raises the concern of the teacher. Obviously there are multiple reports out there, and one I heard was that he did not cooperate with the administration questioning as to why he brought it to school, and thus led to bringing in law enforcement. All a perfect-storm set up from the very beginning, and anyone would have to be blind and a dunce to think otherwise.
Different officials including the police and mayor said he was uncooperative beyond repeating it was a clock and “passive-agressive.” Breitbart has reported that police are seeking an exemption from releasing the police report due to a possible lawsuit, but I haven’t been able to find more info on it anywhere else:
POLICE REPORT BLOCKED BY POSSIBLE AHMED’S ‘CLOCK’ LAWSUIT
The Texas police department at the center of the Muslim-clock-inside-a-box controversy wants to bottle-up information that would help the public decide if Texas teachers and police were unfair to the Muslim boy who brought a suspected hoax-bomb to school — or if Texans were smeared as haters by progressives and President Barack Obama.
Department officials want to keep the information from the public because they’re facing a possible lawsuit by two lawyers working with the boy’s father and his political advisors at the jihad-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations, a source told Breitbart News.
The information could include details about the boy’s answers to police when they asked him if his bizarre and hazardous device was a hoax-bomb, rather than a uselessly dismantled clock, as he claimed.
Under normal circumstances, the police department releases information to the media no later than 10 days after a request for it. But the police department is asking Texas’ Attorney General for an exemption because of the expected lawsuit.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will decide whether to grant the exemption to the police department.
Some information is also being hidden by the parents of the boy, Ahmed Mohamed.
The school can’t release additional information because the Sudanese parents of the boy have not signed the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, either for the boy or his older sister, Lesley Weaver, a spokeswoman for the district told Breitbart.
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/24/police-report-blocked-muslims-clock-case-lawsuit/
And the school administrators fell for the scam and made the kid rich and famous.
We know that the school officials knew it was not a bomb. They should have just sent the kid home and not called the police. Had they done that, we would have never heard of the Clock Kid.