Irving, TX ninth grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school

I cannot tell you how mad this made me. The racism, the refusal to appreciate the nerdy kid, the police idiocy, the bad teacher, the horrible administration. 5 police officers interrogating one 14-year-old who just likes tinkering because he brought in a clock.<p>Does anybody know a good way (that is, polite and unlikely to be percieved as menacing) to send something to the family? I&#x27;d totally go in on a giant AdaFruit gift certificate for the young fellow. Or a scholarship fund. Or both.

I am just baffled at the ignorance. Not only does everybody in that school automatically assumed it was a bomb, but the police has the audacity to: &quot;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.”&quot;<p>The engineering teacher advising him to not show anyone else is just sad. He just wants to show people his passion, but everybody else&#x27;s inability to for one second think that maybe this kid has great potential, rather think that he made a bomb, because what else could he possibly be making. This is infuriating.<p>You can buy your own damn clock kit on Amazon for $6! <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Electronic-Production-Suite-Clock-…&#x2F;…&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Electronic-Production-Suite-Clock-…&#x2F;…&#x2F;</a><p>How are these people in these positions?

You can imagine how proud he was, he really wanted to show off his clock. I can think of a few times I got shut down by bored adults when I wanted to present something I built.<p>But he wasn&#x27;t met with boredom, he was met with an arrest. Police still threatening charges.

Anil Dash started a document for folks to show support. He says he&#x27;ll be in touch with the family soon.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;anildash&#x2F;status&#x2F;644000575617658881" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;anildash&#x2F;status&#x2F;644000575617658881</a>

Foley artists and prop guys are so responsible for this (obviously not morally).<p>Guns don&#x27;t &quot;sound like guns&quot; (pew! pew! click!), bombs don&#x27;t &quot;look like bombs&quot; (red dynamite strapped to a modernist circuit board with dramatic technicolor wiring), drowning doesn&#x27;t &quot;look like drowning&quot; (dramatic flailing &amp; yelling) etc. etc.<p>&quot;Mr. X, it&#x27;s like you&#x27;re not a real teacher! You haven&#x27;t even given a dramatic monologue about believing in myself yet!&quot;

Would you like to see a kid wearing NASA t-shirt and handcuffs? Go ahead... <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;anildash&#x2F;status&#x2F;644020453724585984" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;anildash&#x2F;status&#x2F;644020453724585984</a>

You know it&#x27;s bad when real headlines sound like they&#x27;re from the Onion...

Irving; that&#x27;s all you really need to know. In Plano or at the Dallas magnet school downtown he&#x27;d have been celebrated.

Irving, TX&#x27;s Irving high school[1] has 34 athletic coaches[2], so you can see their priorities. I can&#x27;t find any course descriptions on their site, other than a few online courses. (&quot;Web design - Learn industry-standard software including Adobe Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash with helpful videos.&quot;)<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irvingisd.net&#x2F;Domain&#x2F;8" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irvingisd.net&#x2F;Domain&#x2F;8</a> [2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irvingisd.net&#x2F;Page&#x2F;6032" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.irvingisd.net&#x2F;Page&#x2F;6032</a>

I hope that this arrest does not go onto his records and create some red tape nightmare for the future.

&gt; &quot;He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” said Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president.<p>Wait... run for president?

This experience, may make the boy turn into a terrorist- -being racially profiled..I could imagine someone being like &quot;well they think I&#x27;m already a terrorist, might as well not let them down...&#x27; -- I mean seriously -- I hope the cops, and principle have their arses sued off for this crap.

Poor kid. Idiot adults.

Idiots vote for Trump to &quot;make America great again&quot; and when a smart American kids tries to build something they arrest him.