

The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”Īhmed's father Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, a Sudanese immigrant, said his son was seized because his name was Mohamed He said: "It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car.
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Police spokesman James McLellan said he did not believe the boy was telling the full story. Police officers accused him of making a "movie bomb" before he was led away.Īhmed whipped up the device in 20 minutes using a a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a metal case.Īhmed has been suspended from school as police decide whether to charge him.
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That’s who I thought it was,” the Dallas Morning News reported.Īhmed said he was suddenly made to feel conscious of his skin colour as the headteacher threatened him with expulsion if he didn't make a written statement. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teenager who was arrested and sent to juvenile detention last month after bringing a homemade clock to his high school, visited the White House Monday evening following a personal invitation from President Barack Obama. Some numbers pulled out of his muslim ass that are 95 muslims killing each other and the other 5 the tyranical masters americans killed before realising that you cant liberate the zoo. Towards the end of the school day, they led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. I HATE Clock-building Muslims now Septem23:15. “I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’” “She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said. He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson so Ahmed brought his invention up to show her. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’” “He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. He brought his invention to school but instead of receiving the praise he expected, was told by his engineering teacher not to show anyone else. Plenty have praised the Ahmed's engineering skills - and the hashtag has been picked up by everyone from Google employees to actresses.Īhmed spends his time fixing his go kart and playing with electronics. Now a hashtag, #IstandwithAhmed has begun trending on social media and has drawn support not just from the United States, but the rest of the world. He built a clock and took it in to Irving MacArthur High school in Dallas, USA but teachers were convinced he had created a bomb. He even invited the young Muslim boy to bring his homemade clock to the White House.Īhmed was led away in handcuffs for questioning at a juvenile detention centre earlier today. The president tweeted a message from the official account praising Ahmed Mohamed and saying that more kids should get into science. Barack Obama has joined the social media campaign that has followed the arrest of a 14-year-old Muslim boy after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb.
