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

Ahmed Mohamed's handmade clock led to his arrest, then White House invite

"I didn't do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day." Asked about why Ahmed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Mr Boyd said he did "not have answers to your ...

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Muslim boy arrested for bringing clock to Texas school

Mohamed told The Dallas Morning News that he was just trying to impress his teachers when he brought the clock to MacArthur ... I wanted to show something small at first… they took it wrong so I was arrested for a hoax bomb.” Mohamed, who had loved ...

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Obama invites Texas boy arrested for building clock to White House

was detained by police after a teacher at his suburban Dallas high school reported him after determining that the device looked like a bomb. The Irving police chief announced yesterday that the youngster will not be charged since there was no evidence that ...

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Texas High School Teen Arrested for Building a Clock

An Irving, Texas, high school student has been arrested after making an electronic clock in a pencil case. The 14-year-old showed the creation to an engineering teacher and then to an English teacher. The “clock” was confiscated after a teacher said ...

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Teen Clockmaker Arrested in One of Texas’ Most Punitive School Districts

When Mohamed returns to class with the teachers who made a judgment call and had him arrested — though he’s said he may transfer to another high school — he’ll know he’s got people across the world telling him he’s no criminal, pulling for ...

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Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and others pledge support for student arrested over homemade clock

The police report cites three MacArthur High teachers as complainants against Ahmed for building ... of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is investigating Ahmed’s arrest as ethnically motivated. “This all raises a red flag for us ...

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Muslim schoolboy, 14, arrested after police thought home-made clock was a BOMB

Teenage scientist Ahmed Mohamed was frogmarched to a detention centre by armed cops and fingerprinted after one of his teachers spotted the device and phoned detectives. The 14-year-old - who was wearing a NASA t-shirt when he was arrested - revealed how ...

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Muslim teen arrested after Texas teachers believe homemade clock is a bomb

A Dallas-area teen with a knack for tinkering built a homemade clock (See image) for his engineering teachers. Ahmed Mohamed never expected the reaction he’d receive for his invention. The 14-year-old Irving ISD student was arrested. Despite repeated ...

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Ahmed Mohamed's handmade clock led to his arrest, then White House invite

In response, teachers at MacArthur High School called the police, fearful he had made a bomb. The boy, an aspiring engineer, was led away in handcuffs "for his own safety" and questioned. Since news of his arrest broke, including a picture of him looking ...

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Obama, Zuckerberg stand with arrested Ahmed for building clock

"I built the clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her. It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it and I got arrested for it later that day," he said. The teenager who dabbles in robotics ...

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Muslim student’s arrest raises charges of profiling

his arrest and suspension sparked a wave of criticism and raised suspicions that they had overreacted because of the boy’s religion. “I built the clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her,” Ahmed ...

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Former Madison Co. Schools teacher arrested on sex crimes charges out on bond

A former Buckhorn Middle School teacher accused of having sex with a student, is free on bond. Duane Erwin was arrested Wednesday afternoon. He faces four counts of Sodomy and two counts of a school employee engaging in a sexual act with a student under ...

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US Teenager Arrested For Clock Invention Suspected to Be Explosive

Americans, including President Barack Obama, reacted with an outpouring of sympathy for a 14-year-old boy who was arrested at a Texas high school after a teacher mistook his scientific project - a homemade clock - for a bomb. Zlatica Hoke reports the ...

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Ahmed Mohamed arrest latest in pattern of Islamophobia

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old high school freshman in Irving, Texas, was arrested Monday for bringing a homemade electronic clock into class, which was mistaken for a bomb by a teacher. Ahmed was suspended for three days and questioned by police because ...

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Muslim teenager arrested from school after teachers think he built a bomb

US President Barack Obama and Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday extended his support to the 14-year-old boy who was arrested for carrying a handmade clock to his class room as his teacher mistook it for a bomb. Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to ...

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Teen arrested for clock gets invitation from White House

Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering enthusiast, brought the clock to his high school in Irving, Texas, on Monday to show one of his teachers, which she mistook to be a bomb. Hours later, he was handcuffed and arrested by school resource officers as part of ...

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Ninth-Grader's Arrest Over a Home-Built Clock Strikes a Chord Across America

"I didn't do anything wrong. I just showed my teachers something, and I end up being arrested later that day." Asked why Mohamed was not permitted to call his parents while being questioned by police, Boyd, the police chief, said he did "not have answers ...

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White House Invite For Arrested 'Clock Boy'

Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd told a news conference on Wednesday that Ahmed would not be charged. "We have no evidence that there was an intention to create alarm," he told reporters. The police department earlier said three teachers at the high school ...

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This teen got arrested for bringing handmade clock to school, gets invited to White House instead!

A 14-year-old teen in Irving was arrested by local police because he had brought a handmade clock to school. He presented the clock to his teacher whom he had wanted to impress but instead got taken in by the police as the teacher thought that it was a bomb.

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Texas boy arrested for building clock is already a GOP debate issue

See also: Twitter stands with Texas boy who was arrested for building a clock GOP debate moderator Jake Tapper used the detention of Mohamed — who brought the clock to school to show his teacher but was instead handcuffed and placed in juvenile — to ...

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