"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. "It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it."

Ths is just today's "rally around something via facebook"

That being said - It is a sad state of affairs that our world has gotten to the point of assuming worst case scenario

hey why are those kids dressed in black, carrying duffle bags and guns into school bypassing the metal detectors?

oh they are probably just renacting that scene from the Matrix. whats the harm?

It's hard to fault the paranoid worry that it might...might...be a bomb.

It's pretty hard not to fault the approach they took to addressing that.

Wasn't he held and questioned without his parents present?

Yes, and before I asked my question I did mean to point out that I agree that the process of what happened to him is very wrong.

You sound like a grandpa.

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Question. If it was some suburbia white "christian" kid that brought it, do you think the reaction would have been the same? I tend to think so only because most school shootings in the past where white dudes. This is just a bad combo of the kid's ethnicity/religion and people in schools being overly cautious because of school shootings.

So the only way this would be a non-story is if it was an Asian kid.

I'm just saying, if the story didn't tell me that it was a muslim kid from Sudan, I would still say that looks more like something suspicious than it looks like a clock. I get the school safety side of it, but what they did to him afterwards was a violation of human rights.