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

Twitter stands with Texas boy who was arrested for building a clock

See also: Boy brings clock to school. Teacher thinks it's a bomb. Boy is arrested. Mohamed, a student who is passionate about engineering, brought the clock into MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, where a teacher saw it and called the police.

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We were right to arrest and handcuff boy over homemade clock, officials say

On Wednesday, an Irving independent school district spokeswoman, Lesley Weaver, defended the school’s decision to arrest Mohamed under Texas’s “hoax bomb” statute after an English teacher reported the “suspicious” device to administrators.

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Muslim schoolboy arrested in Texas for homemade clock

Texas: A Muslim schoolboy arrested in Texas after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb won invitations to visit the White House, Google and Facebook on Wednesday amid a surge of public support. President Barack Obama congratulated Ahmed Mohamed ...

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14-year-old Texas student arrested when homemade clock is mistaken for a bomb

A 14-year-old Texas student was arrested Monday when a teacher mistook a homemade clock the boy had brought to class for a bomb, American newspaper The Dallas Morning News reported. The student, Ahmed Mohamed, loves to tinker with mechanics at home ...

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14-year-old Muslim kid arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

When he showed it to his engineering teacher Monday morning ... He was threatened with expulsion if he didn’t make a written statement. He was later arrested and taken to juvenile detention center. He is now at home serving a three-day suspension ...

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No charges for teen arrested after homemade clock mistaken for bomb

Original post: A Texas teen was arrested and removed from school for building a homemade clock that teachers thought looked like a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed wanted to impress his teachers with his clock when he took it to MacArthur High School Monday.

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Ahmed Mohamed Arrested For Bringing a Clock to School

On Monday, the 9th grader was arrested inside the halls of his school for bringing one of his inventions — a homemade clock — to show his teacher. After showing his engineering teacher the digital clock, which was a simply constructed gadget containing ...

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Boy arrested for homemade ‘bomb’ clock gets White House dinner and Facebook job offer

Ways to get invited to the White House for dinner: Make a clock that looks like a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested after his teacher mistook the timepiece for an explosive device. But Obama has since tweeted inviting the boy for dinner. Then Mark ...

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Boy, 14, arrested for homemade clock mistaken for a bomb

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. Instead, he got arrested. In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a US school district the target of online outrage, the year nine boy was pulled out of his ...

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Muslim teenager arrested in Texas after teacher, police decide that the clock he invented was a 'bomb'

Chicago, United States: A Muslim teen was led out of a Texas school in handcuffs after bringing a homemade digital clock to class his teachers thought was a bomb, prompting accusations of Islamophobia and an online backlash Wednesday. A photo of Ahmed ...

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Muslim schoolboy arrested in Texas for homemade clock

Chicago (AFP) - A Muslim schoolboy arrested in Texas after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb won invitations to visit the White House, Google and Facebook on Wednesday amid a surge of public support. President Barack Obama congratulated Ahmed ...

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Kid Brings Clock to School and Gets Arrested Because His Teacher Thought It Could Be a Bomb

No charges will be brought against 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested in Irving, Texas on Monday for showing his English teacher a clock he'd built at home. Several scientific organizations and members of the tech community have come out in ...

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Texas Student Arrested After Clock Mistaken for Bomb

A 14-year-old Texas boy was arrested at school after a teacher mistook a homemade clock for a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed, who says he enjoys electronics, was not charged but was suspended from school for three days. The incident occurred at MacArthur High School ...

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Obama throws support behind Tx. teen arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

He said he showed his teacher the invention after class ... You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he... The school's principal suspended Mohamed for three days, WFAA ...

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Boy, 14, arrested for homemade clock mistaken for a bomb

Fourteen-year-old Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to get noticed by his teachers. Instead, he got arrested. In an incident that has raised allegations of racism and made a US school district the target of online outrage, the year nine boy was pulled out of his ...

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Cool Clock, Bring it to White House: Obama Tweets Arrested Muslim Boy

The Muslim teen who was arrested in the US today after a teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, received a pat in the back from the President. As criticism and condemnation poured in on social media for what was called one of the worst instances of ...

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Barack Obama praises Muslim boy arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

A 14-YEAR-OLD Muslim boy has been arrested in Texas after a high school teacher claimed a homemade clock he brought to class looked like a bomb. Ahmed Mohamed, who enjoys tinkering with electronics, proudly took his invention to MacArthur High School in ...

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9th Grade Muslim Boy Arrested For Building A Clock That His Teacher Decided Might Be A Bomb

Meet Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth grader living in Irving, Texas. Ahmed loves playing around with electronics and on Monday, he managed to do something seriously cool: he built a clock from scratch! And he did it in just about 20 minutes. I don’t know about ...

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Texas boy arrested for building clock says he's transferring to 'any other school'

See also: Boy brings clock to school. Teacher thinks it's a bomb. Boy is arrested. "So I guess everyone knows I’m the person who built a clock and got in a lot of trouble for it," Ahmed said, addressing the crowd of reporters outside of his home.

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Race-Grifters Unite: 14 Year-Old Ahmed Mohamed Arrested Over Suitcase Clock

A 14 year-old high school freshman was arrested Monday in Texas for bringing a homemade digital clock to school. Apparently, he brought it to school to show it off but a teacher, concerned that it looked like a bomb (and not without justification), called ...

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