Muslim teen arrested for bringing reassembled clock to school
A 14-year-old Muslim boy is arrested at his high school in Irving Texas after a digital clock he had reassembled at home using a pencil case was mistaken by his teacher to be a bomb.Ahmed Mohamed a freshman at the time was questioned by police detained and led in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center and suspended from school for three days for what authorities called a hoax bomb but what was actually a homemade clock.Mohameds arrest set off a media storm as many saw the incident as an example of racial profiling.
Mohamed became known as the Clock Boy and the hashtag IStandWithAhmed appeared on social media.Cool clock Ahmed President Barack Obama tweeted.Want to bring it to the White House We should inspire more kids like you to like science.
Its what makes America great.(Mohamed took him up on the offer meeting the president in October 2015 during an astronomy night event hosted on the White Houses South Lawn.)Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also chimed in posting Youve probably seen the story about Ahmed the 14-year-old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he took it to school.Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause not arrest.
The future belongs to people like Ahmed.Ahmed if you ever want to come by Facebook Id love to meet you.Keep building.Mohameds family later filed a lawsuit against the Irving Independent School District the city of Irving and McArthur High School principal Daniel Cummings for discrimination but it was thrown out.
The teen did not return to the school and the family moved to Qatar soon after the arrest.
