A Muslim teenager built a simple clock out of electronic components and took it to show his engineering teacher at school — but he was arrested when another teacher thought it looked like a bomb and alerted administrators.
Police in Irving, Texas, never suspected the device was an explosive device and did not alert the bomb squad, but they still arrested 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed because he could offer no “broader explanation” for his clock besides describing it as a device that measures time.
What do you think would happen if a white 14 year old built a nuclear reactor in his parent's home
What would be the reaction of the authorities. Lets see shall we?
When another 14-year-old boy built a nuclear reactor at his parents’ home he was invited to meet with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy — who http://mentalfloss.com/article/28576/mad-scientist-month-whos-afraid-taylor-wilson offered their expert assistance, equipment and encouragement to apply for a research grant.
Taylor Wilson, who is white, entered his nuclear fusion reactor five years ago in a series of science fairs that eventually won him a trip to Switzerland, where he toured the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator.
The president also invited Mohamed to visit him at the White House after the Muslim teen’s story sparked national outrage over an apparent double standard. Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great. — President Obama (@POTUS)
His clock doesn't look like a clock and it was unrelated to a school project. Protocol must be followed because (unfortunately) we live in a day where kids shoot and blow up other kids in school.
Now he gets to meet the POTUS?
His clock, as we saw it in the photo (which may have been after police tampered with it) doesn't look like a clock to you. GF says it "looks like a bomb", but how many bomb have you seen, GF, outside of tv? What it looks like to us is less relevant than what a competent engineering teacher (who presumably could understand it) would have thought it looked like. I mean, I'm no engineer, but I don't see any explosives in there.
it doesn't matter what I think it looked like, his teacher and police did think it looked like a bomb. ....after police tampered with it ?????? why do you think they tampered with it ?...well maybe it looked like a bomb !!!! most people don't see a bomb until that last split second when their life is about to end or change.
Godfather.
It was another teacher who alerted authorities to the device his engineering teacher apparently knew what the device was....a clock. No problem with the other calling her superiors, she was apparently unfamiliar with the device. When one is not in the know, find those who are in the know.
I also do have an issue that he was STILL suspended AFTER it was quite clear that the said device was clearly a clock.
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*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
His clock doesn't look like a clock and it was unrelated to a school project. Protocol must be followed because (unfortunately) we live in a day where kids shoot and blow up other kids in school.
Now he gets to meet the POTUS?
His clock, as we saw it in the photo (which may have been after police tampered with it) doesn't look like a clock to you. GF says it "looks like a bomb", but how many bomb have you seen, GF, outside of tv? What it looks like to us is less relevant than what a competent engineering teacher (who presumably could understand it) would have thought it looked like. I mean, I'm no engineer, but I don't see any explosives in there.
it doesn't matter what I think it looked like, his teacher and police did think it looked like a bomb. ....after police tampered with it ?????? why do you think they tampered with it ?...well maybe it looked like a bomb !!!! most people don't see a bomb until that last split second when their life is about to end or change.
Godfather.
It was another teacher who alerted authorities to the device his engineering teacher apparently knew what the device was....a clock. No problem with the other calling her superiors, she was apparently unfamiliar with the device. When one is not in the know, find those who are in the know.
I also do have an issue that he was STILL suspended AFTER it was quite clear that the said device was clearly a clock.
A Muslim teenager built a simple clock out of electronic components and took it to show his engineering teacher at school — but he was arrested when another teacher thought it looked like a bomb and alerted administrators.
Police in Irving, Texas, never suspected the device was an explosive device and did not alert the bomb squad, but they still arrested 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed because he could offer no “broader explanation” for his clock besides describing it as a device that measures time.
What do you think would happen if a white 14 year old built a nuclear reactor in his parent's home
What would be the reaction of the authorities. Lets see shall we?
When another 14-year-old boy built a nuclear reactor at his parents’ home he was invited to meet with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy — who http://mentalfloss.com/article/28576/mad-scientist-month-whos-afraid-taylor-wilson offered their expert assistance, equipment and encouragement to apply for a research grant.
Taylor Wilson, who is white, entered his nuclear fusion reactor five years ago in a series of science fairs that eventually won him a trip to Switzerland, where he toured the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator.
The president also invited Mohamed to visit him at the White House after the Muslim teen’s story sparked national outrage over an apparent double standard. Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great. — President Obama (@POTUS)
Really Last -12 you have no problem with a 14 yr old getting hand cuffed at his school for all to see to be ridiculed , just a ? Are you a parent cause if that shit happened to my 14 yr old I'd have major problems with authority ...
It's pretty telling that I haven't found 1 pic with what the clock looked like BEFORE they tore it apart yet there's tons of pics with the clock looking like it does now after they opened it up.
It's pretty telling that I haven't found 1 pic with what the clock looked like BEFORE they tore it apart yet there's tons of pics with the clock looking like it does now after they opened it up.
That's why I would like for the authorities to give the clock back to Ahmed so he can fix it. At least then we could get a real idea as to what this clock looked like before it was dismantled while being checked. Then put it on display somewhere, for positive inspirational purposes for science.
Side note: how can this device be thought of as a bomb when there appeared to no sign of explosives....C4 etc?
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
It's pretty telling that I haven't found 1 pic with what the clock looked like BEFORE they tore it apart yet there's tons of pics with the clock looking like it does now after they opened it up.
Side note: how can this device be thought of as a bomb when there appeared to no sign of explosives....C4 etc?
I have no problem with the teacher calling the calls to have this investigated. I do not have a problem with the kid being put in handcuffs while it's investigated. I do have a problem with them suspending the kid after they found out it was a harmless device.
Come on, really? The teacher didn't even call the fucken bomb squad. Ya some bomb. Dude, putting a 14 year old in handcuffs, wow. America, yup, please keep reminding me how we're all free.
Teachers have direct lines to bomb squads? I have no problem with the teacher calling it in and would hope any teacher has ANY inclination that kids could be in danger would do the same.
I don't think he should have necessarily been cuffed.
I have no problem with the teacher calling the calls to have this investigated. I do not have a problem with the kid being put in handcuffs while it's investigated. I do have a problem with them suspending the kid after they found out it was a harmless device.
Wow, really? Ever been handcuffed for something you didn't do? You never forget it.
That would be ABSOLUTELY THE TRUTH! The one time in my life I was ever arrested I was 18 for something I STILL don't know what for. It was summer went to this outside mall parking lot fair many times walking my bike through then locking it on one of the outside trailers. This cop stops me saying I can't have my bike in the fair. I told I'm not riding it and there's never been a problem before....well before I could say anything else he tells me *if I fucking catch you in here again you are going downtown* I was like WHAT, I wanted to be at the fair after working 3 jobs to save money for college. I locked my bike up at my usual spot and came back to the fair kind of forgetting what that cop angerly said to me earlier.
An hour or so later I was playing that game you throw rings around coke glass bottles, next thing I know I get pounded in the back of my head. Arms wrenched behind my back, cuffs on then he says in my ear *i told you, your fucking ass was going downtown* The whole time in the front seat of the squad car I'm thinking my mother is going to kill me.
After a couple hours being cuffed to a bench with a drunk on the other side they decided to call my mother. Luckily she wasn't home, they let me go on my own recognizance then some other officers took me back to my bike. Man, I rode the 5 miles home in tears. I got a court date in front of a judge, given a $25 fine and if I stayed clean of whatever I was charged with it would be expunged in a year. I never wanted to go to trial which would've been when I was off to school, I just wanted it all to go away and my mother NEVER finding out.
I told my mother years later when I thought it was safe, she said if she was home she would've been down at that station raising holy hell. Apparently, police that summer were hyper sensitive in that 2 cops were killed a month earlier to my incident while beating apparently another teen while in the very same jail/station.
Peace
*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
I think that if a kid is building electronics in an educational atmosphere, that is a LOT different than bringing some homemade electronic through security screening.
yeah so what's the difference if he or his parents builds a bomb and it blows up in a school room or an airport ? good Lord you guy's kid's are shot and killed because they use toy guns while they are playing....so a home made clock that looks like a bomb brought to school should raise some red flags...or does that manner of thinking exclude muslim kids ? after all we need to be politically correct right ? America is receiving threats from so called muslim radicals and this doesn't even make you guy's just a little curious ?
Godfather.
Well there is a pretty big difference between a clock and a bomb, lol. The teachers only had to look at the damn thing and see that there were no explosives. This has nothing to do with the kid being Muslim in my mind, and I'm not convinced that that made the difference at the school either. Apparently a cop said some dumb comment about it, which is bullshit, but I feel like the school itself is to blame for the whole thing. They shouldn't have contacted the cops in the first place. All they had to do was ask the kid a couple of questions and look at the damn thing. I think that the fact the school immediately thought this thing could be a bomb is ludicrous, but really telling - Americans keep themselves so fucking scared, it's ridiculous.
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
A Muslim teenager built a simple clock out of electronic components and took it to show his engineering teacher at school — but he was arrested when another teacher thought it looked like a bomb and alerted administrators.
Police in Irving, Texas, never suspected the device was an explosive device and did not alert the bomb squad, but they still arrested 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed because he could offer no “broader explanation” for his clock besides describing it as a device that measures time.
What do you think would happen if a white 14 year old built a nuclear reactor in his parent's home
What would be the reaction of the authorities. Lets see shall we?
When another 14-year-old boy built a nuclear reactor at his parents’ home he was invited to meet with officials from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Energy — who http://mentalfloss.com/article/28576/mad-scientist-month-whos-afraid-taylor-wilson offered their expert assistance, equipment and encouragement to apply for a research grant.
Taylor Wilson, who is white, entered his nuclear fusion reactor five years ago in a series of science fairs that eventually won him a trip to Switzerland, where he toured the Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator.
The president also invited Mohamed to visit him at the White House after the Muslim teen’s story sparked national outrage over an apparent double standard. Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great. — President Obama (@POTUS)
I have no problem with the teacher calling the calls to have this investigated. I do not have a problem with the kid being put in handcuffs while it's investigated. I do have a problem with them suspending the kid after they found out it was a harmless device.
Come on, really? The teacher didn't even call the fucken bomb squad. Ya some bomb. Dude, putting a 14 year old in handcuffs, wow. America, yup, please keep reminding me how we're all free.
Since when is it up to a teacher to call a bomb squad? Isn't that a police matter?
Ok, sorry for not clarifying my post. Not the teacher but the cops or whoever the authorities were. And yes I'm sure the schools have access to all those numbers, especially after 9/11 and all these school shootings and whatever. But please, that's more important than the kid being handcuffed for basically nothing. You guys have no issue with them NOT calling the bomb squad yet have an issue with me saying the teacher should've called the squad. Really?
I think that if a kid is building electronics in an educational atmosphere, that is a LOT different than bringing some homemade electronic through security screening.
yeah so what's the difference if he or his parents builds a bomb and it blows up in a school room or an airport ? good Lord you guy's kid's are shot and killed because they use toy guns while they are playing....so a home made clock that looks like a bomb brought to school should raise some red flags...or does that manner of thinking exclude muslim kids ? after all we need to be politically correct right ? America is receiving threats from so called muslim radicals and this doesn't even make you guy's just a little curious ?
Godfather.
Well there is a pretty big difference between a clock and a bomb, lol. The teachers only had to look at the damn thing and see that there were no explosives. This has nothing to do with the kid being Muslim in my mind, and I'm not convinced that that made the difference at the school either. Apparently a cop said some dumb comment about it, which is bullshit, but I feel like the school itself is to blame for the whole thing. They shouldn't have contacted the cops in the first place. All they had to do was ask the kid a couple of questions and look at the damn thing. I think that the fact the school immediately thought this thing could be a bomb is ludicrous, but really telling - Americans keep themselves so fucking scared, it's ridiculous.
You're delusional if you think this has nothing to do with him being a Muslim. Read into the town, the mayor and the comment the cop made when he saw him. And I'm still waiting for a pic of the "bomb" before it was torn apart.
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
I think that if a kid is building electronics in an educational atmosphere, that is a LOT different than bringing some homemade electronic through security screening.
yeah so what's the difference if he or his parents builds a bomb and it blows up in a school room or an airport ? good Lord you guy's kid's are shot and killed because they use toy guns while they are playing....so a home made clock that looks like a bomb brought to school should raise some red flags...or does that manner of thinking exclude muslim kids ? after all we need to be politically correct right ? America is receiving threats from so called muslim radicals and this doesn't even make you guy's just a little curious ?
Godfather.
Well there is a pretty big difference between a clock and a bomb, lol. The teachers only had to look at the damn thing and see that there were no explosives. This has nothing to do with the kid being Muslim in my mind, and I'm not convinced that that made the difference at the school either. Apparently a cop said some dumb comment about it, which is bullshit, but I feel like the school itself is to blame for the whole thing. They shouldn't have contacted the cops in the first place. All they had to do was ask the kid a couple of questions and look at the damn thing. I think that the fact the school immediately thought this thing could be a bomb is ludicrous, but really telling - Americans keep themselves so fucking scared, it's ridiculous.
You're delusional if you think this has nothing to do with him being a Muslim. Read into the town, the mayor and the comment the cop made when he saw him. And I'm still waiting for a pic of the "bomb" before it was torn apart.
I think you know I'm not delusional. I already acknowledged what the cop said. I was only talking about the teachers. I am also waiting to see a photo of this thing. I think it's hard to really judge until we see just how much like bomb this thing looked (to a layperson).
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
I have no problem with the teacher calling the calls to have this investigated. I do not have a problem with the kid being put in handcuffs while it's investigated. I do have a problem with them suspending the kid after they found out it was a harmless device.
Wow, really? Ever been handcuffed for something you didn't do? You never forget it.
That would be ABSOLUTELY THE TRUTH! The one time in my life I was ever arrested I was 18 for something I STILL don't know what for. It was summer went to this outside mall parking lot fair many times walking my bike through then locking it on one of the outside trailers. This cop stops me saying I can't have my bike in the fair. I told I'm not riding it and there's never been a problem before....well before I could say anything else he tells me *if I fucking catch you in here again you are going downtown* I was like WHAT, I wanted to be at the fair after working 3 jobs to save money for college. I locked my bike up at my usual spot and came back to the fair kind of forgetting what that cop angerly said to me earlier.
An hour or so later I was playing that game you throw rings around coke glass bottles, next thing I know I get pounded in the back of my head. Arms wrenched behind my back, cuffs on then he says in my ear *i told you, your fucking ass was going downtown* The whole time in the front seat of the squad car I'm thinking my mother is going to kill me.
After a couple hours being cuffed to a bench with a drunk on the other side they decided to call my mother. Luckily she wasn't home, they let me go on my own recognizance then some other officers took me back to my bike. Man, I rode the 5 miles home in tears. I got a court date in front of a judge, given a $25 fine and if I stayed clean of whatever I was charged with it would be expunged in a year. I never wanted to go to trial which would've been when I was off to school, I just wanted it all to go away and my mother NEVER finding out.
I told my mother years later when I thought it was safe, she said if she was home she would've been down at that station raising holy hell. Apparently, police that summer were hyper sensitive in that 2 cops were killed a month earlier to my incident while beating apparently another teen while in the very same jail/station.
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What a bad experience, G! I can see why you would be upset big time.
When I was in my late teens I was riding in a car and the driver (also young) was driving recklessly. Apparently the cops thought the drivers was trying to evade them (he was not). When the driver finally noticed the cops, he was pulled over and we were both dragged out of the car (literally), thrown against the hood (literally), roughly frisked and cuffed. The cuffs were put on super tight and my hands started to get numb. Were were taken downtown and harshly questioned as though we were hardened criminals. Bad experience.
So here we have this obviously not very brutal looking kid with his clock project getting cuffed. Despite all the positive response he's gotten since then, you know the trauma of being cuffed is going to stay in that kid's head. Stupid adults.
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Seriously? The trauma? It's not that big of a deal. The kid is going to get laid as a result of this. He's already been invited to the white house. This kid is the most popular kid in the school district. Too bad he's suspended.
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
I'm so glad I don't live in a country where a clock is considered a "suspect device"
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
I'm so glad I don't live in a country where a clock is considered a "suspect device"
I don't blame the teachers fir being cautious. It does suck when you live in a country that had 20 children mowed down with an AR-15.
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
Seriously? The trauma? It's not that big of a deal. The kid is going to get laid as a result of this. He's already been invited to the white house. This kid is the most popular kid in the school district. Too bad he's suspended.
His human rights were violated, unfortunately "freedom" in the US has degraded so badly that the interest in feeding the paranoia now outweighs a persons human rights a common sense. And yes the trauma, we see all the invites to all the great things and go "oh well all fixed now". What we don't see is the humiliation this boy felt, how it really affected him, nor how it will affect him going forward. Again I say, you create what you fear. Honestly I have to hold back the eye rolling and laughter when I travel in the states and see how "free" it really is down there.
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I don't know how it's done in other countries, but here if you are a suspect, you can be handcuffed. Christ, they didn't beat him, or verbally abuse him. They handcuffed him until they knew it was safe. Big deal. The bigger injustice is that he got suspended.
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
I believe he was held for around 4 hours and questioned without his parents or a lawyer present...I'm not a lawyer but that doesn't sound very appropriate.....and maybe his rights were violated.
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
I believe he was held for around 4 hours and questioned without his parents or a lawyer present...I'm not a lawyer but that doesn't sound very appropriate.....and maybe his rights were violated.
I doubt they were, under the Patriot Act. I'm not sticking up for the cops, but they probably had a right to do what they did if they can claim that they suspected terrorist activity.
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With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
Seriously? The trauma? It's not that big of a deal. The kid is going to get laid as a result of this. He's already been invited to the white house. This kid is the most popular kid in the school district. Too bad he's suspended.
It's not a big deal because he's going to get lots of *poonaanee*......well I have to TOTALLY DISAGREE! One thing you have to remember from the teen's point of view was that he was building creating something INNOCENTLY to impress his teacher and for reasons unknown to him initially he's arrested and placed in handcuffs. I don't care what you say THAT trauma at THAT age is going to stay with him for the rest of his life. What happened to me has never ever left me and I was 18 at the time, no matter how much I tried to forget it still stays with and what SOME officers can do when and if they feel like it.
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*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Scott, seriously, sometimes you post dumb things. I'd love for your son to be held for 4 hrs without you being allowed to see him or know what the fuck is going on. And if you wouldn't freak out then sorry, you need to figure out some parenting skills. I don't think there'd be any parent in here who wouldn't freak the fuck out if that happened to their kid. Seriously man
You guys are taking this way too personal. If it had been a bomb, he could have detonated it whenever he wanted. Should they have taken him into a room? Yes. But they didn't. This kids human rights weren't violated. He was a suspect with a suspect device. Get over it.
I believe he was held for around 4 hours and questioned without his parents or a lawyer present...I'm not a lawyer but that doesn't sound very appropriate.....and maybe his rights were violated.
I doubt they were, under the Patriot Act. I'm not sticking up for the cops, but they probably had a right to do what they did if they can claim that they suspected terrorist activity.
Even if it was determined early that this device was indeed deemed to be a clock. He never claimed that his device was nothing other than something that that tells time. I don't how he can be suspected of terrorist activity when his device was determined to be nothing other than a clock.
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*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
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I also do have an issue that he was STILL suspended AFTER it was quite clear that the said device was clearly a clock.
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*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
And, that posting of his photo in the cuffs. Some asshole juvenile shoots another person but their name (let alone picture) won't be released?
All around, handled in a most fucked up way.
Side note: how can this device be thought of as a bomb when there appeared to no sign of explosives....C4 etc?
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.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Brown kid= Bomb
I don't think he should have necessarily been cuffed.
An hour or so later I was playing that game you throw rings around coke glass bottles, next thing I know I get pounded in the back of my head. Arms wrenched behind my back, cuffs on then he says in my ear *i told you, your fucking ass was going downtown* The whole time in the front seat of the squad car I'm thinking my mother is going to kill me.
After a couple hours being cuffed to a bench with a drunk on the other side they decided to call my mother. Luckily she wasn't home, they let me go on my own recognizance then some other officers took me back to my bike. Man, I rode the 5 miles home in tears. I got a court date in front of a judge, given a $25 fine and if I stayed clean of whatever I was charged with it would be expunged in a year. I never wanted to go to trial which would've been when I was off to school, I just wanted it all to go away and my mother NEVER finding out.
I told my mother years later when I thought it was safe, she said if she was home she would've been down at that station raising holy hell. Apparently, police that summer were hyper sensitive in that 2 cops were killed a month earlier to my incident while beating apparently another teen while in the very same jail/station.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
The teachers only had to look at the damn thing and see that there were no explosives. This has nothing to do with the kid being Muslim in my mind, and I'm not convinced that that made the difference at the school either. Apparently a cop said some dumb comment about it, which is bullshit, but I feel like the school itself is to blame for the whole thing. They shouldn't have contacted the cops in the first place. All they had to do was ask the kid a couple of questions and look at the damn thing. I think that the fact the school immediately thought this thing could be a bomb is ludicrous, but really telling - Americans keep themselves so fucking scared, it's ridiculous.
I am also waiting to see a photo of this thing. I think it's hard to really judge until we see just how much like bomb this thing looked (to a layperson).
When I was in my late teens I was riding in a car and the driver (also young) was driving recklessly. Apparently the cops thought the drivers was trying to evade them (he was not). When the driver finally noticed the cops, he was pulled over and we were both dragged out of the car (literally), thrown against the hood (literally), roughly frisked and cuffed. The cuffs were put on super tight and my hands started to get numb. Were were taken downtown and harshly questioned as though we were hardened criminals. Bad experience.
So here we have this obviously not very brutal looking kid with his clock project getting cuffed. Despite all the positive response he's gotten since then, you know the trauma of being cuffed is going to stay in that kid's head. Stupid adults.
And yes the trauma, we see all the invites to all the great things and go "oh well all fixed now". What we don't see is the humiliation this boy felt, how it really affected him, nor how it will affect him going forward. Again I say, you create what you fear.
Honestly I have to hold back the eye rolling and laughter when I travel in the states and see how "free" it really is down there.
You never really had to begin with.
Sometimes it's not the song that makes you emotional it's the people and things that come to your mind when you hear it.
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)
Peace
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)