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Originally Posted by Nyah
Even after he explained exactly what it was? Would a warning not have sufficed? Instead, he was arrested & held without his parents present and interrogated. I don't see anything fair about that. It was a clock.
Edit: This "hoax bomb" thing GMG too. If his clock was left unattended in the bathroom, or in a backpack on school grounds then yeah, sure...go after him for the hoax thing. That was not anywhere near the case though. He wasn't trying to hide it, he wasn't being weird about it, he was trying to show it off.
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I'm not really defending any of this but you sort of have to think like cops. Terrorists often do practice runs to see what reactions they can expect. If you believe the 9/11 story, the hijackers did a flight to LA prior to 9/11. The Columbine shooters made videos pretending to kill people at the school before actually killing people. Someone might have given this kid a hoax bomb to see what might happen in the real situation. It's worth a check I think. The racist stuff the cop said definitely sucks though.
Also, some crimes require a guilty mind, like if the accused didn't mean to do it, he/she is not guilty. This might be one of those situations where they needed to determine his state of mind before being able to legally dismiss the case. Just determining that the bomb was fake was probably not enough for the cops to just go home.