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14-Year-Old Student Arrested After Bringing His Invention To School
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
My hobby is to invent stuff.
14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought his homemade digital clock to his Dallas-area high school to show his engineering teacher.
They told me that I committed a crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb.
The school administrators called the police.
An officer and the principal came and took me up. And they took me to a room filled with five officers which they interrogated me and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention.
Ahmed was handcuffed and taken to a juvenile facility without his parents’ knowledge.
And then later that day, I was taken to a juvenile detention center where they searched me. They took a fingerprint and mug shots of me. It made me feel like I wasn’t human. It made me feel like a criminal.
Larry Boyd, the Chief of Police, said they had to err on the side of caution.
The student was taken into custody for possession of a hoax bomb. That’s a very suspicious device. We live in an age where you can’t take things like that to school.
On Wednesday morning, the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed was the top trending topic on Twitter in the United States.
President Obama tweeted:
“Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.”
Hillary Clinton showed her support for the teen:
“Assumptions and fear don’t keep us safe – they hold us back. Ahmed, stay curious and keep building.”
Do you think the school and the police handled this appropriately? Share and comment below.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/14-year-old-student-arrested-after-bringing-his-invention-to-school/
The police should’ve checked the whole school, who knows what WMD’s could be found with all those pens and pencils lying around. And we know how dangerous paper can be, with papercuts and paper aeroplanes, not to mention sheets of paper lying on the floor which might breach health and safety laws. And what about suspicious people loitering around carrying rucksucks, they could have anything in their bags.
With teachers being told they can’t tell the difference between a boy and a girl anymore, how can we expect them to tell the difference between a clock and weapon?
What an amazing young man. Spent all summer, inventing this digital clock to impress his teachers and instead they reward him with handcuffs and a terrifying field trip to a police station.
We can expect more of the same as long as there are some people in the teaching profession who relinquish their brains to the rock pile and let them flap in the wind to the latest and greatest whim that comes their way and that they are asked to implement. Children who are fortunate enough to have teachers and principals with the kind of honor and integrity that foremost , protects, nurtures, and respects each and every one of their students so they excel in their education, it would appear in this day and age, are the lucky ones.