14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

[Expling]

I have to agree, it doesn't look like a clock but I understand what they meant by their predictions; better safe than sorry I guess
But they shouldn't have accused him if they weren't 100% sure

poor boy!

[-:Undertaker:-]

Cringe at all the celebrities and POTUS on Twitter jumping on this trendy bandwagon.

[Elegance]

yes, it doesn't look like a clock but i wouldn't outright accuse the poor boy of building a bomb.

[FlyingJesus]

Surely as a teacher you would simply ask the kid what it is rather than call the police and wait for them to surprise him with handcuffs

Though tbh he is gonna be swimming in poontang now

[Kyle]

It looks more like a bomb than a clock. The teacher did the right thing and the fallout is very cringeworthy.

[xxMATTGxx]

Doesn't take a massive genius to find out if there is explosives in the clock or not to be fair. Did they evacuate the whole school when the teacher found out then? Or did she just get the cops in and deal with it like that.

There was no need to put the boy in handcuffs though. Man, any electronics project he would work on is going to look like a bomb then. Circuit board, wires etc.

[FlyingJesus]

By the sounds of it he wasn't arrested until the end of the day so they obviously weren't that worried if they let school go on as normal until then

[MKR&*42]

When I heard the news story it did seem a bit absurd, but from the actual picture it does look a bit..dodgy.

This has all been blown incredibly out of proportion still.

[abc]

They over reacted due to his skin colour. Any normal teacher would speak to the kid properly about what it was and if she was really worried then taken him to the principals office alone to discuss. I am not saying they were wrong to report him, but the manner in which the school and the police treated the child is terrible.

A brown kid in America makes a clock, makes international news.
A white kid in America murders nine black people, doesn't make international news.

People will always be more wary of brown people. Hell I am and I am brown myself.

[thms]

They over reacted due to his skin colour. Any normal teacher would speak to the kid properly about what it was and if she was really worried then taken him to the principals office alone to discuss. I am not saying they were wrong to report him, but the manner in which the school and the police treated the child is terrible.

yeah the way he was treated was terrible, poor guy

he's got a meeting in the white house to show obama the clock!