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Thursday, September 17, 2015

Why A Ninth-Grader’s Arrest Over A Home-Built Clock Struck A Chord Across America

elderstatement.com September 17, 2015 Why A Ninth-Grader’s Arrest Over A Home-Built Clock Struck A Chord Across America , 3 Comments

By Abby Phillip, Sep 16, 2015 Washington Post

Ahmed Mohamed just wanted to impress his teachers with a homemade invention. The story of what happened next has made the 14-year-old from Irving, Tex., the object of national outrage and attention.

Eager to show off to his engineering teacher, Mohamed walked into MacArthur High School on Monday morning with his hastily assembled invention: a digital clock.

Hours later, the ninth-grader was escorted out of the school in police custody after teachers mistook the device for a bomb.

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