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"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages

Posted by samzenpus on from the paying-the-price dept.

phrackthat writes: The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the boy who was arrested in Irving, Texas has threatened to sue the school and the city of Irving if they do not pay him $15 million as compensation for his arrest. To refresh the memories of everyone, Ahmed's clock was a clock he disassembled then put into a pencil case that looked like a miniature briefcase. He was briefly detained by the Irving city police to interview him and determine if he intended for his clock to be perceived as a fake bomb. He was released to his parents later on that day and they publicized the matter and claimed Ahmed was arrested because of "Islamophobia".

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  1. Re:That won't last long... by slimdave · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... the kid was not arrested ...

    Purely on a factual level, yes he was arrested, after being questioned for an hour and a half (how is that even possible?), and was taken to a detention centre, fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned further.

    He was not charged. Possibly that's what you meant.

  2. Yes, he was arrested [Re:That won't last long...] by Geoffrey.landis · · Score: 5, Informative

    The school certainly overreacted, but...

    1) the kid was not arrested

    Yes, he was. He was taken away from the school by the police in handcuffs. That's an arrest.

    I think what you meant to say was, the kid was not charged. That's correct. He was arrested, but released without charges.

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  3. Re:Litigious Much by theArtificial · · Score: 5, Informative

    History of the Big Bang Theory cites a Belgian Catholic Priest named Georges Lemaître as the originator of the theory.

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  4. Re:Litigious Much by Billy+the+Mountain · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the genetics part see Gregor Johann Mendel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Mendel was a monk.

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  5. Re:Litigious Much by njnnja · · Score: 5, Informative

    Please excuse the karma whoring but you did ask: Gregor Mendel was a monk who did pioneering experiments on heredity. Although it seems obvious in retrospect, even after Darwin first published the theory of natural selection it wasn't until it was put together with Mendel's work that evolutionary theory as we understand it today came about.

  6. Re:That won't last long... by PRMan · · Score: 5, Informative

    He actually was invited to visit the fair—which he declined—and Olivia's ebola test won first prize.

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