9th-Grader May Face Charges After Homemade Clock Mistaken For Bomb

New submitter bengoerz writes: 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was led away from MacArthur High School in handcuffs and faces possible charges after teachers, school administrators, and police in Irving, Texas mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. The device — a circuit board, power supply, and digital display wired together inside a pencil box — was confiscated by a teacher after the alarm sounded in class. Despite telling everyone who would listen that his device was just a clock, Ahmed was confronted by four police officers, suspended for three days, and threatened with expulsion unless he made a written statement, before eventually being transported to a juvenile detention center to meet his parents.

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[Orgasmatron]

Amazing how things change.

This has been a regular story on /. since the 90s, pretty much all white kids. But this time, the exact same story is, according to the article and most of the comments, evidence of racism and/or anti-Muslim hatred.

The next time this happens, probably in 3 to 6 months, will it be about anti-white racism and anti-Christian hatred? Or will it go back to just being evidence that we need to toss everyone involved with "education" into a giant sack and drown them in the river?

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[NotDrWho]

Does the device tell time?

Does the device contain explosives?

These are school teachers, not bomb experts. All they know is that it was a box with some sort of digital timer on it. You think they were going to perform a full forensic analysis of it before they called the cops?