AlleyCat
2017-05-20 00:35:47 UTC
"Clock Kid" And Family Moving From Texas To Qatar
A federal court has thrown out the civil rights lawsuit filed by the
family of the Texas teenager known as "Clock Boy."
The lawsuit alleged that the city of Irving and Irving school district
discriminated against Achmed Mohamed at Irving MacArthur High School in
September of 2015.
Mohamed, a Muslim teenager who was 14 years old at the time, brought a
homemade clock to school to show his engineering teacher. But an alarm on
the clock went off in his English class and the teacher confiscated it. He
was sent to the principal's office.
"Achmed Mohamed never stated the device was anything other than a clock,
never threatened anyone with harm, never claimed to have made a bomb, and
never attempted to scare or cause alarm to anyone. When he asked for his
parents, he was told that he could not speak with them because he was in
the middle of an interrogation," his attorney argued according to the
court's ruling.
The lawsuit claimed Mohamed's civil rights were violated when he was
interrogated at length without his parents and arrested on hoax bomb
charges.
When his father finally arrived at the school several hours later, the
court documents state he "tried to explain to Officer Howman that Achmed
Mohamed was interested in robotics and created things, but she was
unwilling to listen to his explanations."
Police originally said Mohamed was not very forthcoming and the school as
concerned that the device was possibly the infrastructure for a bomb.
Officers acted in an abundance of caution.
"It was a very suspicious device. We live in an age where you can't take
things like that to school. Of course we've seen across our country
horrific things happen. We have to err on the side of caution," Irving
Police Chief Larry Boyd told FOX 4 in 2015.
The charges against Mohamed were later dropped but the school still
suspended him for three days.
A federal court has thrown out the civil rights lawsuit filed by the
family of the Texas teenager known as "Clock Boy."
The lawsuit alleged that the city of Irving and Irving school district
discriminated against Achmed Mohamed at Irving MacArthur High School in
September of 2015.
Mohamed, a Muslim teenager who was 14 years old at the time, brought a
homemade clock to school to show his engineering teacher. But an alarm on
the clock went off in his English class and the teacher confiscated it. He
was sent to the principal's office.
"Achmed Mohamed never stated the device was anything other than a clock,
never threatened anyone with harm, never claimed to have made a bomb, and
never attempted to scare or cause alarm to anyone. When he asked for his
parents, he was told that he could not speak with them because he was in
the middle of an interrogation," his attorney argued according to the
court's ruling.
The lawsuit claimed Mohamed's civil rights were violated when he was
interrogated at length without his parents and arrested on hoax bomb
charges.
When his father finally arrived at the school several hours later, the
court documents state he "tried to explain to Officer Howman that Achmed
Mohamed was interested in robotics and created things, but she was
unwilling to listen to his explanations."
Police originally said Mohamed was not very forthcoming and the school as
concerned that the device was possibly the infrastructure for a bomb.
Officers acted in an abundance of caution.
"It was a very suspicious device. We live in an age where you can't take
things like that to school. Of course we've seen across our country
horrific things happen. We have to err on the side of caution," Irving
Police Chief Larry Boyd told FOX 4 in 2015.
The charges against Mohamed were later dropped but the school still
suspended him for three days.
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STILL can't understand why liberal Democrats are so in love with Muslims.
Muslims are against abortion, contraception, pre-marital sex, they kill
homosexuals BY LAW and they treat women as slaves and chattel. Their old
men rape little boys and get away with it... oh, and they HATE you. Am I
leaving anything else out that you just LOVE about them?
STILL can't understand why liberal Democrats are so in love with Muslims.
Muslims are against abortion, contraception, pre-marital sex, they kill
homosexuals BY LAW and they treat women as slaves and chattel. Their old
men rape little boys and get away with it... oh, and they HATE you. Am I
leaving anything else out that you just LOVE about them?