Ahmed Mohamed’s ‘homemade clock’ looks like a ‘bomb’ as PC police attack teacher
Police say they will not charge a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose teachers were alarmed when he brought a homemade clock to his Texas high school. The clock in a suitcase didn’t look like a traditional clock.
Teachers alerted the police because they thought the clock resembled a bomb.
Irving police Chief Larry Boyd said during a news conference Wednesday that Ahmed Mohamed will not be charged with possessing a hoax bomb because there’s no evidence that he meant to cause any harm.
This photo provided by the Irving Police Department shows the homemade clock that Ahmed Mohamed brought to school, Wednesday, Sept.16, 2015, in Irving.
Boyd says the clock that Ahmed built looked “suspicious in nature.”
School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver says officials were concerned with student safety and not the boy’s Muslim faith.
“This episode is a good illustration of how pernicious stereotypes can prevent even good-hearted people who have dedicated their lives to educating young people from doing the good work that they set out to do,” said Josh Earnest, the White House press secretary.
“That is not America,” his father said of Ahmed’s detainment. “That is not us. That is not like us.”
President Obama showed his support for the teenager on social media and tweeted, “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.”
Many in the media are being criticized for portraying the clock as a standard looking clock and the not the “suitcase bomb” looking device.
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Sorry, no kid should have taken that device to school and the teacher, school and police did the right thing.