Texas: Irving 9th-grader Ahmed Mohamed arrested after taking homemade clock to school

Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday. Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case. So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock. In the meantime, Ahmed’s been suspended, his father is ...

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Texas teen arrested because teacher thought homemade clock was ‘hoax bomb’

Police in Irving, Texas blamed a 14-year-old boy for his own arrest after the boy’s teachers called his homemade clock a “hoax bomb,” KXAS-TV reported. “I tried making a phone call to my father. They said, ‘You’re in the middle of an ...

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Irving ninth-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer ... who directs the council’s North Texas chapter and has spoken to lawyers about Ahmed’s arrest. “We’re still investigating,” she said, “but it seems pretty egregious.”

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Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?'

The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer ... who directs the council’s North Texas chapter and has spoken to lawyers about Ahmed’s arrest. “We’re still investigating,” she said, “but it seems pretty egregious.”

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Student Designs Clock, Arrested for Bomb

An Irving, Texas student was suspended and taken into custody after he brought a homemade clock to school to show his teachers. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, designed the clock using a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, which he put inside a ...

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Texas Teenager Arrested When Teachers, Police Decide His Homemade Clock is a "Hoax Bomb"

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested at his school in Irving, Texas when teachers and police thought his homemade clock could be dangerous. A teenager in Irving, Texas was arrested Monday when he brought a homemade clock to class and was accused of building a ...

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Social media world explodes after Irving student’s arrest for taking homemade clock to school

Almost as soon as Avi Selk’s eye-popping story — about Irving 9th-grader Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest after teachers mistook his homemade clock for a bomb — posted Tuesday night, national media figures started weighing in. Jamelle Bouie, Slate’s chief ...

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Texas high school student detained after bringing homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, says his hobby is to "invent stuff," and he stands by his assertion that, contrary to what police and officials at his high school say, the homemade clock he brought to show teachers was not a fake bomb. Irving teen arrested after taking ...

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Muslim ninth grader arrested for bringing an electronics project to school

He showed the project to his engineering teacher, who praised the design but advised him ... According to the Dallas Morning News, the police arrested Ahmed and led him out of school in handcuffs. His school gave him a three-day suspension, and police ...

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Texas high school student arrested, suspended after bringing homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, says his hobby is to "invent stuff," and he stands by his assertion that, contrary to what police and officials at his high school say, the homemade clock he brought to show teachers was not a fake bomb. Irving teen arrested after taking ...

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Texas high school student arrested, suspended after bringing homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, says his hobby is to "invent stuff," and he stands by his assertion that, contrary to what police and officials at his high school say, the homemade clock he brought to show teachers was not a fake bomb. Irving teen arrested after taking ...

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http://www.theweek.com/speedreads/577442/texas-high-school-student-arrested-suspended-after-bringing-homemade-clock-school

 

Texas 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to high school

Ahmed tells the Morning News he had hoped to impress an engineering teacher with his homemade clock, made with some simple electronics and a Vaultz pencil case. He showed the clock to the teacher Monday morning but was a bit surprised by the reaction ...

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A 14-year-old Muslim boy was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school in Irving, Texas

14 to show his engineering teacher, he ended up handcuffed by police ... Being brighter than the entire @IrvingPD can get you arrested — especially if you're brown or Muslim https://t.co/N96vZ3Sg7g — Larry West (@LarryWest42) September 16, 2015 ...

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How to Make Your Own Homemade Clock That Isn’t a Bomb

A perfect shitstorm of Islamophobia and technophobia appears to have congealed outside Dallas in the case of a ninth grader arrested after he brought a ... he told the Morning News. Instead, a teacher decided a circuit board plus wires must equal one ...

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http://www.wired.com/2015/09/make-homemade-clock-isnt-bomb/

 

Irving Muslim Teen Arrested For Bringing A Homemade Clock To School

I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day.” Fortunately, he wasn’t sent to jail. The police sent him out to meet his parents shortly after taking his fingerprints, and they believe ...

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Student inventor arrested after teacher thought his homemade clock was a bomb

A US student who made a homemade clock and took it to school has been arrested after police mistook it for a fake bomb. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, is a teenage inventor who makes his own radios and repairs go karts. He hoped to impress his engineering teachers at ...

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http://www.itv.com/news/2015-09-16/student-arrested-after-police-mistake-homemade-clock-for-hoax-bomb/

 

Texas Student Accused of Making 'Hoax Bomb'

I didn’t do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something and I end up being arrested later that day.” His father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, said he drove his son to school Monday morning and encouraged him to demonstrate his gift for technology.

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14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

When he took it to school the next day, he was pulled out of class, interviewed by police officers, and taken in handcuffs to juvenile detention, after being told by teachers that his creation looked like a bomb. Ahmed may still be charged with making a ...

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Texas Student Arrested After Bringing Homemade Clock To School

A 14-year-old Irving, Texas, student was arrested and suspended Monday after bringing a homemade clock to high school that teachers suspected could be a “hoax bomb.” Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth grader at MacArthur High School, said he loves building things ...

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Texas high school student arrested, suspended after bringing homemade clock to school

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, says his hobby is to "invent stuff," and he stands by his assertion that, contrary to what police and officials at his high school say, the homemade clock he brought to show teachers was not a fake bomb. Irving teen arrested after taking ...

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