Posted on 01/19/2016 8:08:16 AM PST by Faith Presses On
It's been a little more than a month since 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Texas after authorities thought his homemade clock was a bomb. Now, we're getting an inside look at some of the emails sent by the Irving Police Department about Mohamed following the September 14 incident.
There are 230 pages of emails that have been released so far to Motherboard under the Texas Public Information Act. We sifted through the documents and collected some of the most interesting emails.
[The emails are in image form, so I can't copy and paste from them. Also all of the emails are included at the end of the article.]
(Excerpt) Read more at inverse.com ...
Then, when some kid brings a real bomb to school and blows it up, the police will be blamed for not stopping him. The solution will of course be more gun control. /seriously, that’s what the left will propose.
How many of those e-mails came from real people? How many were Mohammedans? Why are threats being prosecuted?
Silly me, I forgot we live now in a geographical entity named Acirema, where the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished.
Not learning anything from 09/11/2001, we are doomed to suffer yet more attacks.
He's just one of the aspiring "clockmakers" in Qatar. Nothing special about him there.
Sorry kid, your 15 minutes are up.
Yes, and in Qatar they recognize that a 95 IQ does not a genius make!
I don’t think there were any geniuses present on any side of this affair, all the way up to the White House. What should have resulted in a short note to Clockhmed’s parents about bringing unshielded 120 volt appliances to school ended up with everyone looking stupid.
Kids, these days, they blow up so fast.
Neither does Irving ISD. IMO a teacher or two opened their mouths without engaging their brains.
The only dog in this hunt is that I live in North Irving, aka Valley Ranch. We live in the Coppell ISD, where everything is taken seriously. It didn't take long for me to learn that lesson.
Plusses outweigh the minuses. I've had two kids make it through the system, and my youngest is now in 8th grade. I promised him that we will stay in the district until he graduates from HS. We moved up here from El Paso about 20 years ago. All in all, it was a great move.
In more ways than one, judging by the explosive growth in child obesity rates.
Clockmed’s sister was expelled when she threatened to blow up her school a couple years before. Seems it runs in the family so good thing the cops detained the punk. Guaranteed we’ll be hearing from this tribe again in the near future.
As long as the punk stays in Qatar, this is a good thing.
At this point, unless something else turns up, I have to believe he was being cheeky by bringing this “project” in, as the teaching staff knew him to be.
It appears from his own statements that he knew he was in the area of making something that could “look suspicious.”
Why would he? He was in a new school, where they didn’t know of his “greatness,” and 9/11 was the Friday before. He may have left the school that day angry and “wanting to show them.”
And it seems most likely that in his adolescent understanding, he thought he could be clever and go up to the line but wasn’t crossing it if he was AMBIGUOUS, rather than making an actual bomb.
It’s just like an adolescent to think something like that - that if you just “cleverly” suggest something dangerous, and you are able to claim “plausible denial,” that you can get away with something.
And he might have, except with the level of serious school violence there is, and legitimate terrorism fears, even suggesting a threat raises a question in people’s minds.
And that is where training people to respond to threats comes in - responding to red flags. If something concerns you and gives you pause, even if you don’t understand it and you know there likely isn’t a problem, report it or investigate it anyway.
While there, he'd better not drop a bar of soap in a public shower - or a dinar in a city street.
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