14yr old boy arrested by police in Texas after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb

There is a strong and angry reaction to this on social media
with the hashtag #IStandwithAhmed. 14 year old Ahmed
Mohamed was arrested after he'd made a clock at home
and brought it into MacArthur High School in Irving to
show his engineering teacher who congratulated him.
Another teacher who heard it's beeping sound during class,
saw it and believed it looked like a bomb, alerted school
authorities who called the police.





The homemade clock consisted of a circuit board with wires
leading to a digital display. Later in the day the boy was
pulled out of class and interviewed by the school's
headteachers and four police officers. A head teacher also
threatened to expel him if he did not write a statement. He
was later led out in handcuffs and put into juvenile
detention. He was however released to meet his parents
after he was fingerprinted.