Way to go, Irving.”Ĭhance Williams posted, “Ahmed Mohamed deserves a public apology from you, the school administrators, police, and teachers involved in his arrest. Mocking Irving Schools’ motto, Bill Cain wrote: “‘Where children come first’ … to jail in handcuffs. Kevin McKinney posted, “How did a bunch of complete idiots end up accidentally running a school? Were you all yanked out of a zoo and given paychecks? Learning centers are for teaching … not for ruining innocent people’s lives with your racism and pathetic stupidity! … “This kid is destined to be something great if the dimwits of Irving don’t ruin him first.” “Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I’d love to meet you. The future belongs to people like Ahmed,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. Its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, posted his support. #IStandWithAhmed- Angela Morabito September 16, 2015 If anybody has a spare STEM scholarship laying around, there's a very bright kid in Texas who could use your help. “He is an excited kid who is very bright and wants to share it with his teachers.” “I think this wouldn’t even be a question if his name wasn’t Ahmed Mohamed,” said Alia Salem of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The President would like the teen to join him and other scientists next month for the White House’s annual Astronomy Night, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday.Īhmed said Wednesday he was going to the White House.Ĭlinton tweeted that “assumptions don’t keep us safe” and urged the teenager to “keep building.” “Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and thousands of others are showing support for Ahmed. President Barack Obama, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, U.S. It's what makes America great.- President Obama September 16, 2015
Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. The school’s Facebook page is roiling with sharp criticism of the way the teen was treated, and the hashtag #engineersforahmed is gaining popularity.Ĭool clock, Ahmed. Outrage over the incident – with many saying the student was profiled because he’s Muslim – spread on social media as #IStandWithAhmed started trending worldwide on Twitter with more than 100,000 tweets Tuesday morning. After he said he was interrogated by police without an attorney present, his lawyer, Linda Moreno, told reporters they wouldn’t answer any more questions about the legal process.Īhmed is suspended until Thursday, he said, but is thinking about transferring to another high school. But Boyd said authorities determined that the teenager did not intend to alarm anyone and the device, which the chief called “a homemade experiment,” was innocuous.Īhmed, who aspires to go to MIT, said he was pleased the charges were dropped and not bothered that police didn’t apologize for arresting him. On Wednesday, police announced the teen will not be charged.Ĭhief Larry Boyd said Ahmed should have been “forthcoming” by going beyond the description that what he made was a clock. The teenager did that because, well, it was a clock, he said. Irving Police spokesman Officer James McLellan told the station, “We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only tell us that it was a clock.” “They arrested me and they told me that I committed the crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb,” the freshman later explained to WFAA after authorities released him. In the image, he looks confused and upset as he’s being led out of school in handcuffs. “It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it.”Īhmed talked to the media gathered on his front yard and appeared to wear the same NASA T-shirt he had on in a picture taken as he was being arrested. “I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her,” Ahmed told reporters Wednesday. The 14-year-old’s day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was arrested. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he’d made from a pencil case. When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited.
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