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Ahmed Mohamed, 14, arrested over clock mistaken for bomb


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“Right, but he never called it a bomb, right?”Hayes countered. “He just kept calling it a clock. I mean, it never came out of his lips, he never did something or started showing it around saying, ‘Look at this bomb I have.’ He said,‘Look at my clock.'”

The Boston bomber also would say "Look! This is just a pressure cooker. I'm going to a cooking party."
 

Are you serious? Are you comparing a real terrorist with a boy who built a clock that looked suspicious for some people?

No one would be defending him if it really was a bomb and no one would think that a pressure cooker could be a bomb if it wasn't because of that attack. Your scenario makes no sense at all.

The police should be cautious for safety. If someone at the Boston Marathon saw a guy carrying around a pressure cooker and ask him questions, things would have been different and lives would have been saved. But people are afraid of being called racial profiling and didn't do anything and look what happened. A police officer could ask Dzhokhar Tsarnaev why he's carrying around a pressure cooker near the marathon and ask to inspect it. But some people would call that racial profiling and to let Dzhokhar go. Then later BOOM! people got killed and maimed because the fear of racial profiling.

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The Boston bomber also would say "Look! This is just a pressure cooker. I'm going to a cooking party."
 

The police should be cautious for safety. If someone at the Boston Marathon saw a guy carrying around a pressure cooker and ask him questions, things would have been different and lives would have been saved. But people are afraid of being called racial profiling and didn't do anything and look what happened. A police officer could ask Dzhokhar Tsarnaev why he's carrying around a pressure cooker near the marathon and ask to inspect it. But some people would call that racial profiling and to let Dzhokhar go. Then later BOOM! people got killed and maimed because the fear of racial profiling.

Stop comparing this innocent kid to a terrorist.

Your pressure cooker theory doesn't make any sense. It's clear that no one was in danger here and that his intention was to make a clock and impress his engineer teacher. 

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The Boston bomber also would say "Look! This is just a pressure cooker. I'm going to a cooking party."
 

The police should be cautious for safety. If someone at the Boston Marathon saw a guy carrying around a pressure cooker and ask him questions, things would have been different and lives would have been saved. But people are afraid of being called racial profiling and didn't do anything and look what happened. A police officer could ask Dzhokhar Tsarnaev why he's carrying around a pressure cooker near the marathon and ask to inspect it. But some people would call that racial profiling and to let Dzhokhar go. Then later BOOM! people got killed and maimed because the fear of racial profiling.

No one did anything before the Boston attack because police swept the area for bombs twice and they found nothing. A guy carrying a cooker around during a marathon is not suspicious. Many people bring food and beverages to marathons. 

Police did not ask him anything because they didn't notice him. If a police officer would have inspected the object there was no way he would have let him go. Police officers profile people based on their race all the time.

You are still comparing a innocent kid to a terrorist who killed and harmed a lot of people. The comparison is stupid and extremely offensive.

The kid didn't make a bomb and was detained and his civil rights were violated. The Boston bombers made a bomb and none of them were detained until they actually committed a terrorist attack.

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Not to hate, but this was... interesting.

The internet noticed the components looked like they were from a commercial clock... with a soldered motherboard, transformer and a backup battery.

It would seem the kid literally just pulled apart a cheap clock and put the parts in a briefcase. Now honored by MIT. :toofunny:

A comparison between Ahmed's clock, and components pulled straight out of a commercial clock.

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Ahmed clock "built" in 20 seconds.

 

 

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I don't see the big deal? The stride for ahmed wasn't about his clock being some made-from-scratch amazing contraption, it was the crazy racism that followed it. 

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I'm pretty sure he said at some point that he was messing around with parts and made something in a few minutes. Regardless, nothing changes the fact that his case requires attention because of how the police treated him.

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I don't see the big deal? The stride for ahmed wasn't about his clock being some made-from-scratch amazing contraption, it was the crazy racism that followed it. 

It's not a big deal but it's also not what the media portrayed. 

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It's not a big deal but it's also not what the media portrayed. 

The media exaggerated something???? 

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He said that he put it together in 20 minutes. He built it, he didn't invent the clock.

Still impressive considering most american kids at his age don't even know how to spell long words.

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Still impressive considering most american kids at his age don't even know how to spell long words.

It's not impressive to unscrew a panel and dump the internals into a case. I just feel kinda disappointed.

Not knowing much about electronics I can't be sure he didn't build it himself, but it does look bad. :smh:

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It's not impressive to unscrew a panel and dump the internals into a case. I just feel kinda disappointed.

Not knowing much about electronics I can't be sure he didn't build it himself, but it does look bad. :smh:

It is impressive because in America you rarely see kids trying to do anything besides eating garbage and playing Minecraft on their iPads/iPhones. It doesn't mean he is a genius but it's good to see someone as young as him so curious about how these things work and trying to impress a teacher with actual skills.

The media is exaggerating this but they wouldn't be exaggerating this if the police department would have made their job correctly.

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Morphine Prince

Not surprised people are trying to tear him down. He's non-white AND a Muslim! Oh, the horror! 

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Not surprised people are trying to tear him down. He's non-white AND a Muslim! Oh, the horror! 

People said his parents are Sudanese. Arabs are 50-55% of Sudan's population (no, they are not native to the country). http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html

Does he look Nubian (native Sudanese)? 

Ahmed:
http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/116E6/production/_85589317_4163c0e1-3c48-44ab-af0f-c53360632e81.jpg

Nubians:
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Ahmed's father:

http://utmbs8iu6w2vs3oz2ez0dj16.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mohamed-860x528.jpg

He is not black. He is an Arab.

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