Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old Muslim student was arrested at his high school in Irving, Texas, after bringing a homemade clock to class, which school officials mistook for a bomb.

Though Mohamed had repeatedly said his device was merely a clock he threw together in 20 minutes Sunday night, it did not stop the device from being confiscated as “evidence,” and from being suspended from MacArthur High School, the Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.

Mohamed, who had been a middle school tech savant, says he was just trying to impress his new teachers.

“My hobby is to invent stuff,” he told the Dallas Morning News. “Here in high school, none of the teachers know what I can do.”

He added that the incident made him “feel like a criminal” and inhuman.
Mohamed said he first showed the timepiece to an engineering teacher Monday morning who complimented his work but tellingly suggested he not show anyone else. The clock remained in Mohamed’s backpack until its digital alarm went off inadvertently in an English class later that day.

His English teacher took a far more skeptical view, telling Mohamed it looked like a bomb. She kept the clock and later that afternoon, the teenager was in handcuffs as police marched him out of the school to a juvenile detention center.

“Yup. That’s who I thought it was,” one of the officers who greeted Mohamed in the principal’s office reportedly said, according to the Dallas Morning News. Mohamed says he had never seen the officer before.

“He just wants to invent good things for mankind,” Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, told the Dallas Morning News. “But because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”

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While the white kid that shot and killed 9 black people in a church was escorted by 4 policemen like bodyguards. Welcome to the free world!

Thouh you can never be too suspicious these days, the kid should not have been rough-handled like that.

muslim kid brings a clock that looks like a...clock - arrested.
white kid brings in a bomb that looks like a clock - wins first place medal, then destroys entire room
In short
Engineering + Brown Skin = Arrest
Engineering + White Skin = Student of the Month

dominique:
While the white kid that shot and killed 9 black people in a church was escorted by 4 policemen like bodyguards. Welcome to the free world!

Thouh you can never be too suspicious these days, the kid should not have been rough-handled like that.

Racism and discrimination.