Photographs of the purportedly suspicious device were distributed at that conference: On 16 September 2015, Irving Independent School District (ISD) representatives and police appeared at a joint press conference to address the incident involving Mohamed. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody? We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb.He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation … It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car.
The paper quoted police spokesman James McLellan, who stated: Mohamed described the arrest in a video published by Dallas Morning News: Irving, TX, with one of the most virulently Islamophobic mayors in the U.S., handcuffs a teen for his invention.
Tech blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash was among those who tweeted to boost the story’s early signal: News of the boy’s arrest and interrogation spread quickly in technology/maker circles. People are tweeting #IStandWithAhmed for a Muslim teen arrested for bringing a clock to school /S1cPtRciNl Social media users were rapidly moved by Mohamed’s experience, and a jarring image of the teen handcuffed at the police station (while wearing a NASA shirt) began circulating along with tweets including the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed: “They interrogated me, and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention.” “They took me to a room filled with five officers,” he said. In a video posted on the newspaper’s website, Ahmed described how he was eventually taken from school by the police. “She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said. According to the New York Times, Mohamed’s English teacher discovered the boy’s device when it “beeped,” and someone (it was unclear who) at the school then called police:Īhmed said he brought the clock, which he had fashioned with a digital face in an inexpensive box, to school on Monday to show to an engineering teacher, who said it was “nice” but then told him that he should not show the invention to other teachers.īut when it beeped during an English class, Ahmed revealed the device to his English teacher, according to an account in The Dallas Morning News. The device was in fact a home-assembled clock, not a bomb or a counterfeit bomb. On 14 September 2015, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a ninth-grade student at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was arrested after school officials confiscated what they described as a “hoax bomb” from him.
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