Kid Arrested For Making A.......Clock?

[GMDino]

(09-30-2015, 01:24 AM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Him and his family have a history with this school.
His sister was suspended for threatening to bring a bomb to school.

He didn't make anything, he just took the cover off of a digital clock and put it in a briefcase not a pencil cover. Teacher said it looked like a bomb, when the police got there he refused to cooperate with them. Now he's a hero and is going to NY to meet with UN dignitaries, and his father wants to take him on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Once he's back from that, Obama wants to meet him in the White House..... And he's been invited to FB and Google HQ to meet with the owners and top CEO's.

After all that, I thought the whole thing that we've been talking about alot lately was to always cooperate with the police??? What a confusing message we are sending as a society. We are basically rewarding this kid for doing something that he should have been suspended for. Did the police over react? Possibly, but don't you get what you ask for when you don't cooperate with them?

A little citation would be nice for any of the above accusations.

The kid DID cooperate...even without being allowed to call a parent, having a parent notified, or a lawyer present, you know.  And AFTER he repeatedly told them it wasn't a bomb and he wasn't pretending it was a bomb...the charged him with bringing in a "hoax bomb".

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

Quote:Irving’s police chief announced Wednesday that charges won’t be filed against Ahmed Mohamed, the MacArthur High School freshman arrested Monday after he brought what school officials and police described as a “hoax bomb” on campus.


At a joint press conference with Irving ISD, Chief Larry Boyd said the device — confiscated by an English teacher despite the teen’s insistence that it was a clock — was “certainly suspicious in nature.”


School officers questioned Ahmed about the device and why Ahmed had brought it to school. Boyd said Ahmed was then handcuffed “for his safety and for the safety of the officers” and taken to a juvenile detention center. He was later released to his parents, Boyd said.


“The follow-up investigation revealed the device apparently was a homemade experiment, and there’s no evidence to support the perception he intended to create alarm,” Boyd said, describing the incident as a “naive accident.”

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Police skepticism

Ahmed never claimed his device was anything but a clock, said police spokesman James McLellan. And police have no reason to think it was dangerous. But officers still didn’t believe Ahmed was giving them the whole story.


“We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb,” McLellan said. “He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation.”

Asked what broader explanation the boy could have given, the spokesman explained:

“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”

Police led Ahmed out of MacArthur about 3 p.m., his hands cuffed behind him and an officer on each arm. A few students gaped in the halls. He remembers the shocked expression of his student counselor — the one “who knows I’m a good boy.”

Ahmed was spared the inside of a cell. The police sent him out of the juvenile detention center to meet his parents shortly after taking his fingerprints.

They never removed the clock.  They never called a bomb squad.  The never evacuated the building.

Its a clear case of a teacher going overboard and the police, well, I hesitate to say they handled it poorly or I'll be "the cop hater" again.    But based on the reports it certainly SOUNDS like they went a tad, wee-bit, overboard for something that could have been figured out in a few minutes.