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Family of 'clock kid' seeks $15M in damages
The Hill ^
| 11/23/15
| Jesse Byrnes
Posted on 11/23/2015 7:07:36 PM PST by markomalley
The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the teenager arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school in September, is demanding $15 million and several apologies, their lawyers announced Monday.
An attorney for the family wrote in letters published by the Dallas Morning News that they want $10 million in damages from the city of Irving, Texas, and $5 million from the local school district.
"Ahmed's reputation in the global community is permanently scarred," read both letters to Texas officials, which were sent Monday and elaborated on details from the incident.
As many as seven adults interrogated the 14-year-old, who was pressured to sign a statement saying he intended to bring a "hoax bomb" to the school, according to the letters, which threaten a civil lawsuit if their demands are not met.
The family has also asked for a written apology from the city's mayor and police chief for the incident, which drew international headlines and an outpouring of sympathy on social media.
Ahmed, who has relocated to Qatar with his family after
accepting a scholarship, visited the White House last month for an astronomy event where he briefly met President Obama.
The family's attorney said Monday in one of the letters that the family is living in Qatar "for personal security reasons" but wants relocate back to Texas "when they feel safe again."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude
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To: markomalley
As a resident of Dallas County, I don’t want one penny of my taxes going to this obnoxious family of greedy con artists. This is one case in which I’d not only be willing to sit on the jury, I’d volunteer for it.
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posted on
11/23/2015 9:49:49 PM PST
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HHFi
To: markomalley
I think Irving and the school district should accept this money FROM the clock kid. Oh wait...what?
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11/24/2015 12:30:25 AM PST
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Boomer
(People think I am too patronizing. (That means I treat them as if they're stupid.))
To: A_Former_Democrat
No kidding
Hollingsworth has never done a case like this for damages
Mostly various business oriented law and some family stuff
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posted on
11/24/2015 12:34:51 AM PST
by
wardaddy
(I want to destroy the GOPe and beltway elite as much as defeat the Democrats)
To: markomalley
Wait till the syrian “three year old orphans”, get stateside. Then, the clocks will be ticking to the tune, of pacification by sharia. Oh my, what shall we do?
To: markomalley
He deserves something for having to go to the White house and meet the Kenyan!!!
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posted on
11/24/2015 5:26:06 AM PST
by
ontap
To: markomalley
As many as seven adults interrogated the 14-year-old, who was pressured to sign a statement saying he intended to bring a “hoax bomb” to the school,
...
Well that’s news. He actually admitted in writing that it was a hoax bomb.
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11/24/2015 5:29:41 AM PST
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: markomalley
America is the land of opportunity.
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11/24/2015 6:21:50 PM PST
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GSWarrior
(Black Friday Matters.)
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