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Originally Posted by Ashasx
This post from reddit does a good job summarizing my thoughts:
William Aberhart High was evacuated a number of years ago because of a briefcase (that looked very similar) that was placed in a garbage can. In the end, I think it was just full of clothes or something, but they idea of a bomb threat was treated very seriously.
As somebody who doesn't know much (anything) about explosives, I can understand why someone would think the clock looks like a bomb, or was intended to look like a bomb. I don't really understand the purpose of mounting this clock in a case like that though.
The situation was just handled extremely poorly.
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I agree. I think they were right to be suspicious and temporarily detain him to get to the bottom of it, but further charging him once it was sorted out was too much. I have no doubt that his race was why he didn't get the benefit of the doubt.