“She thought it was a threat to her,” Ahmed told reporters Wednesday at a televised news conference. When it beeped at one point, he said he showed it to a teacher. “You can’t take things like that to school,” he said of the digital display and a circuit board connected to a power source, all within a box.Īhmed said he made the clock to show off what he could build. Asked whether the police would have reacted differently if Ahmed had been white, Boyd said officers would have followed the same procedures. Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said at a televised news conference on Wednesday that his officers acted properly given what they knew at the time. Local police said Ahmed’s Muslim religion didn’t figure into their response.
19, to spend time stargazing from the South Lawn. Ahmed was invited the White House for Astronomy Night on Oct. “This episode is a good illustration of how pernicious stereotypes can prevent even good-hearted people who have dedicated their lives to educating young people from doing the good work that they set out to do,” Earnest told reporters. In addition, close to a million people in the last 24 hours jumped on his bandwagon and sent out tweets with the supportive hashtag #IstandwithAhmed, according to Topsy, a social analytics site.
He even got social-media support from scientists at NASA, whose T-shirt Ahmed wore when he was handcuffed at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, after he brought his clock to class Monday. Invitations have been pouring in to visit Facebook, to attend a Google science fair and to take an internship with Twitter.
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That’s just about the only place that is not on the itinerary of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas student who made a clock that a teacher feared was a bomb, setting off a series of events that turned the ninth-grader into a social-media symbol of official overreaction to his Muslim religion.Īhmed, just 14, will get to visit the White House next month to attend an astronomy conference. Once upon a time, if you did something famous you got to look into a camera and tell the world that you are going to Disneyland.
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