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Day: September 16, 2015
Obama Tweet of Support for the Student Who Was Arrested for Making a Clock
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.
— President Obama (@POTUS) September 16, 2015
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Irving MacArthur student arrested after bringing homemade clock to school
From BoingBoing:
Ahmed Mohamed is a gifted, driven maker-kid who’s in the ninth grade at MacArthur High in Irving, Texas. When he showed the homemade clock he soldered and pieced together to his engineering teacher, he was told to keep it in his bag. But when the alarm went off in English class, his teacher accused him of bringing a bomb to school.
He told the teacher, and then the principal, and then the police offers who’d been summoned, that it was a digital clock he’d made and brought to school to show as evidence of the kinds of things he was making. He’d loved robotics club in middle school and was hoping to connect to a similar peer group in his new high school.
He was arrested, handcuffed, and paraded through the school with an officer on each arm, wearing his NASA shirt.
When he was brought before the school police, the officer who arrested him looked at him and said, “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.” Ahmed Mohamed and his family (and the Council on Islamic American Relations) believe that the officer was referring to the color of his skin and his name.
Police spokesman James McLellan admits that Mohamed always maintained that the device was a clock, not a bomb, “but there was no broader explanation.” When the Dallas Morning News asked him what “broader explanation” he was looking for, McLellan said, “It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”
They did take him into custody.