Interesting that they admit this but still proceeded to arrest, mugshot, fingerprint and then interrogated him alone without his parents. I still don't know the legal implications of the interrogation (is it okay to do that without a legal guardian or legal representation?).
Oh, and the school still suspended him after figuring it out that they were wrong.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/us...eds-clock.html
A Texas police chief on Friday defended the officers who earlier this week detained and handcuffed a 14-year-old high school student for bringing to school a homemade clock that was thought to be a fake bomb.
The police chief in Irving, Tex., Larry Boyd, said in an interview on CNN that officers assigned to MacArthur High School had determined “
fairly quickly” that the device was not a bomb. Then the issue, he said, was to determine why the teenager, Ahmed Mohamed, had brought the device to school.
“What they were investigating was whether he brought a device to school with the intention of creating alarm,” Chief Boyd said.
“One thing is clear to me, regardless of what we did, no matter what decision was made, there would’ve been people who agreed with it and people who disagreed with it,” he said.