An American high school student was arrested on Monday after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb, Time Magazine reports. Fourteen-year old Ahmed Mohamed from Irving, Texas, used a circuit board with a power supply wired to a digital display to make a clock. Dressed in a NASA t-shirt, he brought his invention to school to show it off to his engineering teacher, who was impressed but advised Ahmed not to show it off to any of the other teachers. The boy kept the device in his bag for the rest of the day, but during English class the clock started beeping, prompting the teacher to complain. When Ahmed showed her the clock after class she confiscated it. According to Ahmed, she said ‘it looks like a bomb’, the Dallas News writes. “It doesn’t look like a bomb to me”, the boy told the newspaper. Ahmed was taken out of class by the principal and questioned by five police officers. They asked him about his intentions with the device and why he took itto school. James McLellan, spokesman for the local police department, argued the gadget ‘could reasonably be mistaken for a device if left in a bathroom or under a car’. He added that the police…
This 14-Year-Old Muslim was Arrested for Bringing a Homemade Clock to School
September 16, 2015
