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

US teen Ahmed Mohamed, arrested for clock bomb, now wants $15m compensation

Houston, 24 Nov 2015: The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas teenager who was arrested after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, has demanded USD 15 million in compensation and written apologies from Irving city’s mayor and police chief ...

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US Muslim teen accused of clock bomb seeks US$15 million

The Muslim teenager arrested when a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb threatened to sue his school and the town of Irving, Texas for US$15 million, his lawyer said on Monday. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, became an overnight sensation in September after ...

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http://www.therakyatpost.com/world/2015/11/25/us-muslim-teen-accused-of-clock-bomb-seeks-us15-million/

 

Muslim teen accused of 'clock bomb' seeks $15mn

(MENAFN - Gulf Times) The Muslim teenager arrested when a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb threatened to sue his school and the town of Irving, Texas for 15mn, his lawyer said on Monday. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, became an overnight sensation in ...

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http://www.menafn.com/1094445120/Muslim-teen-accused-of-clock-bomb-seeks-15mn

 

Family of teen arrested for homemade clock seeks $15M

Mohamed’s saga began in September, when one of the boy’s teachers suspected that the homemade clock he brought to school may have been a bomb. The controversial tweet follows Dawkins questioning whether Ahmed, 14, “wanted to be arrested” in order ...

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http://www.tjcnewspaper.com/family-of-teen-arrested-for-homemade-clock-seeks-15m-110226/

 

Loretta Lynch defends Muslims and announces investigation in arrest of Texas 'clock kid'

The Irving Police Department arrested Ahmed Mohamed in September after school authorities grew suspicious of a clock that Mohamed said he made and brought to school to show his teacher. Authorities suspected it was a bomb. Ahmed was never charged ...

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-lynch-muslims-ahmed-clock-20151203-story.html

 

U.S. Justice Dept. Investigates Irving PD for Clock Teen Arrest

... freshman Ahmed Mohamed was arrested but not charged in September after he brought a clock he said he made. The 14-year-old Mohamed told NBCDFW he brought the clock to school to impress his teachers. School officials and authorities grew suspicious of ...

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http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Feds-Investigate-Irving-PD-for-Clock-Teen-Arrest-360552991.html

 

Feds Investigating Case Of Muslim Teen Arrested Over Homemade Clock

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Friday that an investigation is underway into the arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim student ... from the science-loving teen that he wanted to impress his teachers with the timekeeper. The Department of Justice will ...

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mohamed-ahmed-civil-rights-investigation_566214fae4b08e945fefa1f8?hpcrime=y

 

The Feds Are Now Investigating the Case of the 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed

The case of Ahmed Mohammed, the so-called "clock kid" who was arrested at school because one of his teachers thought his homemade clock resembled a bomb, has taken another twist: The feds are now investigating. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said this week ...

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https://news.vice.com/article/the-feds-are-now-investigating-the-case-of-the-clock-kid-ahmed-mohamed

 

Feds Investigate Arrest of Boy Clockmaker

A photograph of a handcuffed and bewildered Ahmed Mohamed went viral in September after he brought the clock to MacArthur High School to show his engineering teacher. Critics called his arrest Islamophobia and racism run amok. President Obama quickly ...

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http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/12/07/feds-investigate-arrest-of-boy-clockmaker.htm

 

Just when you think Dumb can't possibly get any Dumber, what passes as educators reaches for new levels of stupidity:

12-year-old Sikh boy arrested in US after classmate accuses him of carrying a bomb

Armaan Singh Sarai, a 12-year-old boy from an American-Sikh family, was arrested by the Dallas police on December 11 and held for three consecutive days after he was accused by a “bully” in his class of carrying a bomb to school, claims his cousin in a Facebook post. Ginee Haer, who claims to be Armaan’s cousin, took to Facebook to describe the boy's ordeal. Describing Armaan as a “goofball”, Haer tells us how her cousin was born and raised in Texas and recently moved to Dallas with his family. The post goes on to describe Armaan’s congenital heart condition, which ...

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12-year-old Sikh boy jailed in US after classmate accused him of having bomb

A 12-year-old Sikh boy was arrested from a Texas school and held for three days after his classmate accused him of possessing a bomb. The boy, Armaan, was joking with his friends and his classmate accused him of having a bomb in his backpack. The school principal, reportedly, without any “questioning, interrogation, or notification to his parents”, called the police, who searched Armaan’s backpack and found out there was no bomb. Despite that fact, Armaan was detained for three days at a juvenile detention facility and even his parents were not informed about all that happened and where he was ...

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http://www.abplive.in/world-news/12...classmate-accused-him-of-having-a-bomb-261701

 

12-year-old Sikh boy arrested, put behind bars in US for joking about blowing up school with bomb

A 12-year-old Sikh boy was arrested from a school in Arlington, Texas after joking that he was about to blow up the building with a bomb, reports Hindustan Times. Armaan Singh Sarai reportedly joked to a classmate that he would blow up the Nichols Junior High School building with a bomb hidden in his backpack, following which the school principal called the police. Ginee Haer, the cousin of Armaan, said on Facebook that "a bully in class thought it would be funny to accuse him of having a bomb, and so the principal, without any questioning, interrogation, or notification to ...

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http://www.dnaindia.com/world/repor...ing-about-blowing-up-school-with-bomb-2157146

 

Sikh boy in US spends three-day in detention after classmate jokes about 'bomb' in school

In another incident of racial discrimination, Armaan Singh Sarai, a 12-year-old boy from Arlington, US was kept behind the bars for jokinging with a classmate that he has a bomb in his backpack, the boy's cousin wrote in a Facebook post this week. The boy was kept behind the bars for three days, before being released on Monday, Ginee Haer wrote in this Facebook post which went viral and was shared by thousands of people. Sarai's parents were worried about him last Friday as he did not return from school. They started calling police departments in the area only to ...

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http://www.firstpost.com/world/sikh...after-classmate-jokes-about-bomb-2550456.html

 

12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested And Detained For Three Days After Bully Falsely Accuses Him Of Bringing A Bomb To School

Police rushed to Nichols Junior High School in Dallas, Texas, after a student told a teacher that Armaan was planning to blow up the school, media reports said. This was later revealed to be a lie. "A bully in class thought it would be funny to accuse him ...

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Sikh teen in US held after classmate accused him of carrying bomb

Like the case of clock boy Ahmed The alleged incident comes just three months after the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed in Irving, Texas who had made a digital clock and taken it to his school to show it to his teacher. Instead of appreciation or ...

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http://www.mid-day.com/articles/sikh-teen-in-us-held-after-classmate-accused-him-of-carrying-bomb/16782195

 

Another 'Clock kid'? Family outraged as 12-year-old Sikh boy arrested over alleged bomb threat at Texas school

Singh has been charged with "making a terroristic threat," according to ... He also questioned why Armaan's teacher called the cops instead of simply sending the 12-year-old to the principal's office. Armaan is "scared of the dark," he continued.

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http://www.poconorecord.com/article/ZZ/20151218/SHAREABLE/151219931

 

Seventh-grader in Texas arrested for hoax bomb threat three months after teen busted in neighboring county for building clock mistaken for bomb

The arrest comes just three months after Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed ... Authorities evacuated the classroom, which included 16 students and a teacher, until it was determined there was no bomb. Armaan's family claims that it was the classmate who was ...

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/seventh-grader-texas-arrested-hoax-bomb-threat-article-1.2470104

 

Another 'Clock kid'? Family outraged as 12-year-old Sikh boy arrested over alleged bomb threat at Texas school

Singh has been charged with "making a terroristic threat," according to ... He also questioned why Armaan's teacher called the cops instead of simply sending the 12-year-old to the principal's office. Armaan is "scared of the dark," he continued.

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Another 'Clock kid'? Family outraged as 12-year-old Sikh boy arrested over alleged bomb threat at Texas school

Singh has been charged with "making a terroristic threat," according to ... He also questioned why Armaan's teacher called the cops instead of simply sending the 12-year-old to the principal's office. Armaan is "scared of the dark," he continued.

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http://www.capecodtimes.com/article/ZZ/20151218/SHAREABLE/151219931/101015/NEWS

 

Ahmed II? Texan Sikh boy, 12, arrested for threatening to blow up his school and locked up for THREE days - but he insists alleged bomb was just his backpack

Three months after Muslim teenager Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested when a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, another minority student in suburban Dallas has been taken into custody after being accused of bringing a bomb to school. Armaan Singh ...

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3366055/Texan-Sikh-boy-12-arrested-threatening-blow-school-says-people-thought-bomb-just-backpack.html