I'm sure some of us have heard this story already, but I want to discuss it here.
Texas teen handcuffed, arrested for bringing homemade clock to school
http://www.cbc.ca/news/trending/ahme...bomb-1.3230261
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A 14-year-old Texas boy was arrested and taken to juvenile detention Monday after teachers mistook the homemade electronic clock he had brought to school for a bomb.
Ahmed Mohamed, a Grade 9 student at MacArthur High School in Irving, has been suspended for three days. Police initially said he may face charges of making a hoax bomb, but later said the case had been closed without charges.
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He showed it to his engineering teacher Monday morning.
"He was like, 'That's really nice,'" Ahmed said. "'I would advise you not to show any other teachers.'"
Ahmed put the clock in his bag after that, but the alarm went off during English class. He showed his invention to the teacher after class was over.
"She was like, it looks like a bomb," he said.
"I told her, 'It doesn't look like a bomb to me.'"
The teacher kept the clock and the principal called police. Officers pulled Ahmed out of class, questioned him, handcuffed him and took him to juvenile detention, where his fingerprints and mug shot were taken, he said.
"It made me feel like I wasn't human. It made me feel like a criminal," he told the Dallas Morning News.
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Many people, even Obama, have come out in support of Ahmed. On twitter:
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President Obama
@POTUS
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great.
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The poor kid will probably have this memory engraved in his mind forever. We've been talking about equality recently with gay marriage and it's quite apparent that US doesn't even have the basic racial equality down yet.
Edit: this is apparently the letter the principal sent to parents...
