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Irving police: no charges against Ahmed Mohamed, but race played no role in arrest
It took them four periods to get around to questioning him.
Do bombs usually look like movie bombs? Or do most hacked-together electronics look like movie bombs? Do we make judgement calls about reality based on what we see in the movies?
He's a tinkerer who built a clock and took it in to show his engineering teacher. What "broader explanation" do you need?
Did he do either of those things, or did he keep it with him?
IT'S A ****ING CLOCK.
YOU VILL CONFESS!!!
Oh, is that all???
This **** makes me sick.
Another thing which was reported on the radio which appears not to have made it into the article:
They kept asking him about his name.
FURTHER, IF they really suspected this was a THREAT, WHY didn't they EVACUATE?
Isn't that the first thing you do when you have a SUSPICIOUS DEVICE on your hands???
It took them four periods to get around to questioning him.
They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”
Ahmed felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name — one of the most common in the Muslim religion. But the police kept him busy with questions.
The bell rang at least twice, he said, while the officers searched his belongings and questioned his intentions. The principal threatened to expel him if he didn’t make a written statement, he said.
“They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.
“I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
“He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
Ahmed felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name — one of the most common in the Muslim religion. But the police kept him busy with questions.
The bell rang at least twice, he said, while the officers searched his belongings and questioned his intentions. The principal threatened to expel him if he didn’t make a written statement, he said.
“They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said.
“I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
“He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”
“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.”
“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?
The principal threatened to expel him if he didn’t make a written statement, he said.
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.
This **** makes me sick.
Another thing which was reported on the radio which appears not to have made it into the article:
They kept asking him about his name.
FURTHER, IF they really suspected this was a THREAT, WHY didn't they EVACUATE?
Isn't that the first thing you do when you have a SUSPICIOUS DEVICE on your hands???
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