Posted on 09/24/2015 10:48:57 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Congressional leaders are asking Department of Justice to investigate the detention and arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, the teenager who was arrested after teachers thought his homemade clock resembled a bomb. In a letter to Attorney General Lorretta Lynch, Congressman Mike Honda (D-Silicon Valley), Representative Keith Ellison, and Representative Andre Carson urged Lynch to look at any discriminatory practices that might have been a factor in Mohamed’s arrest.
“Profiling and mistreatment of an individual based on presumed or actual faith or ethnicity has no place in the World, let alone in the United States of America,” Honda wrote in the letter, which was signed by 29 members of Congress.
The letter goes on to say that Mohamed was denied his civil rights when his requests to speak to his father were rejected by police at MacArthur High School and later at the juvenile detention center where he was held.
In Texas, a child is entitled to be accompanied by a parent or guardian during a police interrogation or questioning.
“His arrest should serve as a wake-up call for everyone to step back and reflect on our fears and our rushes to judgment, said Carson.
“No matter what their background, our children do not deserve to face the suspicion that so many of us have faced.”
In addition to congressional leaders, Mohamed has also received the support of leaders in the tech industry since news of his arrest broke.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invited the young teen to visit the company headquarters, and, earlier this week, Mohamed attended the Google Science Fair in the Bay Area where he met Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
His next stop appears to be the White House, and it appears he’s taking his clock with him.
“I cant wait to get my clock back & take it to the #WhiteHouse,” Mohamed tweeted Tuesday evening. “@BarackObama the invite is an honor, looking forward to meeting you!”
What took them so long? After all, his name is “Mohammed”!
Unreal.
Oh for God’s sake the kid has had more than his 15 minutes of fame. Can we just drop it please?
Wonder if the Secret Service agents are going to inspect the “clock” before taking it and him into a room with Obie...
Never arrested.
Honda is under suspicion of selling congressional influence, so naturally he’s demanding authorities investigate someone else.
looks like they took the bait hook line and sinker. now little mo can just walk his clock right in to the WH. no way they'd dare check it now.
Why is a clock in a box so different than the above insanity? Shouldn't the DOJ investigate if a child ISN'T persecuted for (what others would do innocently) such actions?
Oh, right, it is because he is Muslim with an activist father. It must be because of his religion that such action was taken. Couldn't be because of the stupidity of zero tolerance (also known as zero thought.) How about a DOJ investigation of the violations of people's rights of due process because of these zero tolerance rules?
His next stop appears to be the White House, and it appears he’s taking his clock with him.
Lol. This should be interesting. Wonder what security will think. What they think and what they say are two things, though.
I hate these idiots.
Not a clock, a timer triggering device.
-PJ
Be a shame if it blew up in the WH.
If he gets his “clock” back and it gets modified between then and his visit to Obie, and something bad happens as a result, I will be the first to LAUGH about it.
And anyone who expresses sympathy will be laughed at as well.
It almost makes you hope for another 9/11 to prove the idiots wrong. Almost — sanity must rule here however someone needs a good kick in the rear.
I got into a debate with a Liberal about how permissive we are and that another 9/11 may happen because of it. He went off on a rant and then stopped when I reminded him that the terrorists attacked one of the most liberal parts of the country — NYC. Not conservative, middle America and another attack will probably be in another liberal part of the country like LA, etc.
It was a FAKE BOMB! It was a TERRORISTIC INCIDENT! The little cur should be PROSECUTED and sent to A-SCHOOL and/or JAIL for the rest of his school days.
That is the problem with Islam...it is a deadly 'religion'....killing is honorable. Ahmed Mohamed is part of that world.
The attacks have never stopped; from military bases to airports to factories - Muslims have continued their jihad against the United States. It is only the morons of the left that continue to characterize these attacks as ‘lone wolf’ or ‘unrelated to terrorism’ or ‘workplace violence’
And of course, most of these attacks have taken place in gun free zones, or as anyone with an ounce of sanity would call it: free fire zones.
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