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"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages
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".
Ok, I liked Clock Boy but this is just dumb. And $15 million? I sure hope he plans on donating a lot of that to science
throw the baby out. The bathwater is cold
The school certainly overreacted, but...
1) the kid was not arrested, nor did he suffer any "damages" in light of the celebrity and overly-friendly treatment from the President, and
2) once the jury hears about his overly-activist father and the lawyer's insinuation that the whole thing was a set-up?
I'm not seeing this one going very far.
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F-ing moneygrabbers, they got a lot of positive attention because of it, he had his 15 minutes of fame..
Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed and Robert Spencer once debated on the topic, “Does Islam Respect Human Rights?” The results were so bad for him that after the debate, The American Muslim pleaded with Muslims not to debate Spencer. In any case, this debate is one indication that Mohamed Elhassan has been trying for several years to make his bones as a warrior against “Islamophobia.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8BLtBFeyyo
The debate starts at 31:48, after an interview with Walid Phares. On a separate note, this Sudanese Islamic activist once claimed that that incident would “spread Islam” in America
That kid may have been innocent, but his father is an Islamic activist trying to intimidate anyone who has any concerns about Islamic activism.
Perhaps this case will be dismissed or jury will decide not to award damages.
However this will be an example. There was a story recently where two arab speaking US citizens were not admitted to the plane, because somebody feared.
http://news.yahoo.com/two-men-kept-boarding-us-plane-speaking-arabic-023330187.html
These two fellow American,s US citizens would have been better off recording the encounter, missing the plane and then suing for bona fide discrimination and would have won big time.
This paranoia needs to stop and one or two cases with proper settlements would help.
Atheist from a Christian family here.
Although Islamaphobia like antisemetism is sometimes just used as a manipulative method to silence legitimate criticism about extremists within these groups... Islamophobia is just as real as antisemitism. For proof of this one needs look no further than the millions of racists that argue to keep out legitimate Syrian war refugees. Given the religious extremism going on much in the middle east, there certainly should be a vetting process but when people use lame excuses of "security" to keep out even orphaned children (that are hardly a terrorist threat) they reveal themselves as heartless racist bigots.
When German Jews were fleeing persecution by Nazis, some American's refused to take Jews in (treating them all like a plague). Today some Americans are repeating the exact same mistake with Muslims. In so doing they not only shame America they shame themselves. The populists may be popular in the moment but history will not be kind to them.
This whole story since the day after the incident reads like a script from exactly what the tinfoil hat crowd said would happen. His father is laughing all the way to the bank and laughing at the foolishness of gullible Americans. They not only duped the SJW crowd, but even duped Obama, and they have already cashed in on their successful plan and sounds like they will continue to do so via a lawsuit. Even though there weren't any actual damages, it will be cheaper for the school district to settle, and then raise taxes so that they can afford to keep the school functioning for the other students in the district.
And maybe while they are at it, they'll put policies in place to prevent such an overreaction the next time -- as will school districts across the country.
Without the threat of a lawsuit and large payout there'd be no incentive to this school (or others) to change, they'd continue to overreact to minor things and escalate to the police without reasonable cause.
Maybe the kid doesn't serve such a large payout, but the school deserves to pay it.
You could sue for a realistic damages figure. If its about principle and not money than wining a case like this should be enough in itself. I can understand why he might want to get the school to admit wrong doing or have a finding against them that they did wrong.
How exactly was he harmed to the tune of $15 Million? I mean seriously if nothing else thanks to Obummer deciding to make a political football out of him he gained from it.
Now if they family said he now needs therapy for anxiety or something, and does not want to go back to that school, and sued for oh I don't know $300 - 400k and an apology for the cost of private school, therapy and pain suffered; I'd say well lets see what comes out in court or if the district settles.
$15 Million on the other hand is a naked cash grab. 15 Million isn't about fair compensation.
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I defended this kid before, thinking that it sucks to get misunderstood and just because his dad is an obnoxious pot stirring lawyer doesn't mean the kid had anything to do with it but this is just stupid. I hope they get counter sued and lose hard.
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In 1975 I was in the 4th grade in Natick Massachusetts going to Johnson Elementary. https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=johnson+elementary+school+natick+ma
We where putting on a play that year in celebration of 1976 the bi-centennial of the country. We were reenacting George Washington's crossing of the Delaware river and our teacher had asked us to bring in props that could be used as guns.
My father had a bolt action .22 hanging in the garage in a cloth canvas case. He had the rifle since he was a teenager from Ohio living on a farm. I thought that would be perfect to bring in. Without asking anyone, when leaving for school I went into the garage and swung the rifle in the case over my shoulder and walked to school which was only a few blocks away. Nobody said a word about a 9 year old carrying a rifle.
I walked into school and went right to the teacher in charge of the play. The teacher said that we couldn't use something like that and was looking for more like wooden toy rifles. I zipped back up the case and carried it to my class. My teacher asked me what I was doing with it and explained that it was supposed to be for the play.
No police were called, no parents were called. I wasn't sent to the principals office or even home. My 4th grade teacher Mr. Etters was going to put the gun in the storage closet and for me to come get it after school was over instead of leaving it by the coat rack where everyone hung their coats in a row. Which I thought was fine.
After school, I got the rifle back and walked home like a normal school kid would. Gone are those days.
We used to bring firecrackers to school too and set them off in the playground there where now is a baseball diamond. Not once ever got in trouble for that either. Those were the days.