Anonymous wrote:Good thing he wasn't black, or he would have been shot for carrying the soldering iron.

x100

I must be missing something. How do you go from it's a clock to it's a bomb? WTF?

Can we have the arresting officer summarily executed?

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty typical of everywhere...not just Texas. If a student brings in anything resembling a weapon or explosive the teachers lose their minds.

Please see the article linked above citing seven other instances of this happening when no one "lost their minds." Including one student who brought in an actual inert bomb.

Anonymous wrote:This is pretty typical of everywhere...not just Texas. If a student brings in anything resembling a weapon or explosive the teachers lose their minds.

Ah there's the defense stance...
It happens all the time but we just never hear about it. The school and the police aren't to blame it's the liberal media's fault for highlighting this particular case.

This is pretty typical of everywhere...not just Texas. If a student brings in anything resembling a weapon or explosive the teachers lose their minds.

To Profile and Punish

To Protect And Serve

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/irving/headlines/20091201-Irving-council-to-vote-on-settlement-4743.ece

This is the result we get when the collective IQ of four Texas police officers is surpassed by that of one 14-year old.

He recalled that one officer said to him, "So you tried to make a bomb?"

He disputed that and kept telling them he'd created a clock."

This reminds me of the "So you killed the clerk?" scene in My Cousin Vinny.

Anonymous wrote:yet no support to this kid for a pop tart http://www.cbsnews.com/news/examiner-recommends-school-board-uphold-pop-tart-suspension/

It was only a matter of time before someone brought this up. Are you seriously this stupid? The pop tart gun case is nothing like this case. In the pop tart case, the kid broke a rule (albeit a very stupid rule) and was suspended according to the school's standard procedure. This child broke no rules, was hauled out of school in handcuffs, questioned in a hostile manner by obviously xenophobic cops, and suspended on top of it. He was not doing something inane like pointing a gun shaped pop tart. He built a clock. He is a future engineer and we need more students like him. With all the emphasis on STEM and the future of the American workforce, it makes perfect sense for Obama to invite him to the White House.

Anonymous wrote:And make sure you read the details. This part makes it just sickening and sad:

"When Ahmed was called out of class, he said he was brought into a room with four police officers, one of whom said, "Yup. That's who I thought it was."

Ahmed told the Dallas Morning News that he felt aware of what he looked like and his name as the officers fired questions at him.

He recalled that one officer said to him, "So you tried to make a bomb?"

He disputed that and kept telling them he'd created a clock."[b]

Seven kids not named Mohamed who brought homemade clocks to school and didn't get arrested:
http://gawker.com/7-kids-not-named-mohamed-who-brought-homemade-clocks-to-1730999866

Both of these pictures were taken in Texas:

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Anonymous wrote:Can't wait to hear the explanation as to why even though the school and police claim they thought it was a bomb they didn't bother to evacuate the school nor did they call in the bomb squad they just arrested the kid.

They knew it was a clock, they just wanted a "broader explanation" as why he made it. In other words, they wanted him to admit that it was going to go 'into a bomb'.

Sometimes a clock is just a clock.

Ack, you beat me to it!

Anonymous wrote:If the kid had brought a toy gun would you be equally outraged?

Uh, bringing a toy gun is completely different from bringing a homemade clock. A toy gun is meant to look like a gun. A clock is meant to look like a clock. He didn't bring a friggin' toy bomb to school. And if he had brought a toy bomb, yes, we would not be outraged.