Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was expecting glowing
praise after bringing the clock he made to show his teachers, but instead he
was hauled out of class, handcuffed and reportedly interrogated by five police
officers.
He claims to have repeatedly told teachers
and the police that the device (which is now currently being kept as
evidence) was in fact a clock, however now police say he could face charges for
bringing a ‘hoax bomb’ to MacArthur High in Texas.
He has since been suspended from the school.
Ahmed said when he first showed the clock to
his teacher he said: ‘That’s really nice, I would advise you not to show
any other teachers.’
When the clock’s alarm went off in another
lesson, the teacher asked Ahmed to bring the device to her, at which point she
allegedly said it ‘looks like a bomb’.
As Ahmed was frogmarched into the principal’s
office one of the officers waiting for him allegedly said: ‘Yup. That’s
who I thought it was.’
‘He just wants to invent good things for
mankind, but because his name is Mohamed and because of September 11, I think
my son got mistreated,’ Mr Mohamed told Dallas News.
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The boy was set-up by the father in order to make a claim. Sit the boy down with all the parts and I would bet he could not build another one like it!
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