{"id":3964,"date":"2015-09-17T03:33:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2017-08-30T02:42:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T18:42:55","slug":"kid-gets-arrested-for-building-a-clock-world-goes-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2015\/09\/kid-gets-arrested-for-building-a-clock-world-goes-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Arrested For Clock He Built &#8211; World Goes NUTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today we have a tale of the fabled American knee-jerk reaction, kid arrested for clock he built &#8211; this time to a 14-year-old Muslim boy who made a cool clock and brought it to school. He got arrested, cuffed and fingerprinted &#8211; over a science project. Yah, arrested for building a clock.<\/p>\n<p>That seems like a slightly harsh reaction, perhaps because his name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IL357BrwK7c\">Ahmed<\/a>? Or he&#8217;s Muslim? Or 9\/11 was just a few days ago? Or all of the factors combined, and the fact his clock bleeped in class.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/737\/21286149939_7ba2815eb2.jpg\" alt=\"Kid Arrested For Clock He Built - World Goes NUTS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The coolest part? He was arrested wearing a NASA t-shirt.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Texas police have decided not to charge a 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.<\/p>\n<p>Officials at MacArthur High School in Irving alerted police because they thought the device was a &#8220;hoax bomb&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Mohamed&#8217;s arrest has been sharply criticised, and the boy has received an outpouring of support including an invitation to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed&#8217;s family believes he was detained because of his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have always had an outstanding relationship with the Muslim community,&#8221; Irving Police Department chief Larry Boyd said on Wednesday. &#8220;Incidents like this present challenges. We want to learn how we can move forward and turn this into a positive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The boy was placed in handcuffs and fingerprinted. He was released after it was determined there was no threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Darknet Responsive Post Ad Links [previously link ad unit] -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5456620019\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>Zuck posted his support for Ahmed too.<\/p>\n<h2>Kid Arrested for Clock he Built &#8211; Mark Zuckerberg Responds<\/h2>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10102373304096361\" data-width=\"500\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10102373304096361\">\n<p>You&#x2019;ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10102373304096361\">Wednesday, 16 September 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10102373304096361\">Zuck&#8217;s Thoughts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the stream of support for the kid, and the rallying against the cause with the Twitter hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23IStandWithAhmed&#038;src=tyah\">#IStandWithAhmed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s turned into quite something with POTUS, Hilary Clinton, the US Secretary of Education and many many more getting involved.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under the hashtag &#8220;#IstandwithAhmed,&#8221; thousands of Twitter users praised the boy&#8217;s initiative and questioned why he was detained including Nasa scientists and US President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It&#8217;s what makes America great,&#8221; Mr Obama wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The Council on American-Islamic Relations says it is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed said that he had made a clock at home and brought it to school to show his engineering teacher. He said his engineering teacher had congratulated him but advised him &#8220;not to show any other teachers&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the Tweet from POTUS, he&#8217;s not impressed with the kid arrested for clock scenario.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It&#39;s what makes America great.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; President Obama (@POTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS\/status\/644193755814342656\">September 16, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good in-depth article by CNN here as well: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/16\/us\/texas-student-ahmed-muslim-clock-bomb\/\">Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, shows teachers, gets arrested<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all getting very intense.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-34266389\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today we have a tale of the fabled American knee-jerk reaction, kid arrested for clock he built &#8211; this time to a 14-year-old Muslim boy who made a cool clock and brought it to school. He got arrested, cuffed and fingerprinted &#8211; over a science project. Yah, arrested for building a clock. 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