Posted on 11/23/2015 12:25:54 PM PST by conservativejoy
The law firm representing Ahmed Mohamed, who has become known as Clock Boy, has sent the Irving City Hall and Irving School District a letter demanding $10 million and $5 million respectively for the poor treatment of Mohamed.
If the government refuses to cough up the $15 mil, the law firm will file a suit for damages. The city and school have 60 days to comply.
In a letter sent Monday, the law firm Laney & Bollinger also demanded a written apology from Mayor Beth Van Duyne and Police Chief Larry Boyd. The attorneys are claiming that Mohamed's civil rights were violated.
"Ahmed never threatened anyone, never caused harm to anyone, and never intended to," read the law firm's letter to the city. "The only one who was hurt that day was Ahmed, and the damages he suffered were not because of oversight or incompetence. The school and city officials involved knew what they needed to do to protect Ahmed's rights. They just decided not to do it."
Mohamed made headlines in September, when it was reported that he was arrested and suspended from school for bringing a homemade clock to class, though skeptical observers familiar with electronics noted that the homemade clock was really just a commercial clock without the casing. A teacher reported him to the police, who subsequently took him out of class, leading Mohamed's father to claim Islamophobia. President Barack Obama invited Mohamed to the White House.
The school has been unable to tell its side of the story, owing to federal educational privacy laws, but if a lawsuit is filed, that muzzle will immediately be lifted.
Mohamed's family has since moved to Qatar, an absolute monarchy which runs the country based on Sharia law and also has the fourth-highest number of slave laborers in the world.
As to “damages “ hell this whole inident turned him into a superstar and he got invited to meet the first Muslim president. If not for this little inident he would be just another snot-nosed nerdy teenager who noody would wver pay attention to.
If putting a clock’s guts inside a ‘pencil box’ is worth $15,000,000.00, how much is harassing a student for chewing a pop-tart into a shape that may resemble a non-working gun worth?
It’s hard to say if slimeball lawyers or Islamic supremacists are the greater threat to mankind.
the only difference between some lawyers and thieves is the method used to steal from you. Lawyers take a lot more tho.
Id sue for 25 mill.... If I were the pop tart kid’s dad!
yes, seriously.
some jury might get real....
This is beyond ludicrous.
Hoax boy should be prosecuted for fraud. He didn’t build or invent a thing, as he repeatedly claimed, he repackaged an existing commercially manufactured clock.
Everything about this is suspicious. Why did he bring it to school in the first place? There was no science project, fair or anything of the sort. Why did it look like it could be a potential bomb? Why decide to put it in that type case?
Hoax all the way and everybody and his dog was taken in by it. He should be prosecuted for fraud, which is what he did by claiming he built or invented it.
Now he’s living in Qatar, and trying to extort money from the US taxpayers.
What is the most ridiculous though, is that this will probably actually end up in a courtroom...
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