A ninth-grade student in Irving, Texas, was arrested and sent to juvenile detention Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Ahmed Mohamed, a student at MacArthur High School, created a clock using a circuit board, power supply and digital clock display together inside a pencil case. He brought the clock to school to impress some of his teachers, but once he showed the clock off, a teacher immediately told Mohamed to put it away.
The 14-year-old was later pulled from his class and sent to the principal’s office, where he was interrogated by police officers. He says he was threatened with expulsion, asked if he tried “to make a bomb,” and led out of the school in handcuffs by police officers.
I expect they will have more to say tomorrow, but Ahmed’s sister asked me to share this photo. A NASA shirt! pic.twitter.com/nR4gt992gB
— Anil Dash (@anildash) September 16, 2015
Mohamed has been suspended for three days. The incident has prompted some to claim–correctly–that his arrest and subsequent transfer to juvenile detention, where he was fingerprinted and then released to his parents, is blatant Islamophobia.
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