Irving police chief: Cops knew the boy didn’t have a bomb

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MSNBC host Chris Hayes gave Boyd the opportunity to admit to a mistake, while conceding that people understood that officers need to be on high alert regarding possible attacks against a school.

However, Hayes said, “I think it’s hard for folks watching this from the outside, seeing this all link up, seeing this kid — who seems like a tremendously poised, bright, genuine kid — be put through this. To not hear from anyone in officialdom down there that ‘Yeah, we didn’t get this one right.'”

“The officers made the decision they did with the information they had with what they thought was right at the time,” Boyd responded. “We are clearly going to review this. We want to always look at ways we can enhance and have a better outcome. There’s a lot of decision points, there’s a lot of alternatives that they have available to them.”

Mohamed was taken out of MacArthur High School in handcuffs on Monday after being accused of making a “hoax bomb” and bringing it to school.

While the community’s anti-Muslim mayor has also defended his arrest, the freshman quickly gained support online as well as from both President Barack Obama’s administration and the academic world.

Hayes pointed out that, despite the allegations against the teen, no bomb squad was called to the MacArthur campus, nor was the campus evacuated.

“Once it’s determined that this is just a clock or just a piece of electronics, why then the arrest and all of that?” he asked Boyd. “That’s very hard for folks to understand.”

“I get that. I understand the concern,” the chief responded. “The officers pretty quickly determined that they weren’t investigating an explosive device. What their investigation centered around is the law violation of bringing a device into a facility like that that is intended to create a level of alarm. In other words, a hoax bomb — something that is not really a bomb, but is designed and presented in a way that it creates people to be afraid.”

“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.'”

“There definitely was some confusion and some level of information that didn’t come out immediately,” Boyd said, adding that in many cases, someone who would make a “hoax bomb” would not be likely to admit to doing so to police.

“With what they had at that time, they made the best decision that they had at that point in time,” he told a visibly skeptical Hayes.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/irving-police-chief-admits-cops-knew-ahmed-mohamed-didnt-have-a-bomb-when-they-arrested-him/

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Conservatives warn Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest was terrorist ‘setup’ to make Islamophobia seem racist

 

While more libertarian-minded conservatives blamed the incident on “zero tolerance” policies — and not racism or xenophobia — others are warning the incident is a “setup” intended to keep Americans from being Islamophobic enough.

“What the president did, Sandra, by elevating this story to national attention, is he basically got rid of ‘if you see something, say something,’” said Fox News host Andrea Tarantos, apparently forgetting that President Barack Obama reached out to the Texas teen after his arrest made national news.

Pamela Geller — who organized an anti-Islam art contest earlier this year in Garland, near the teen’s home in Irving — also claimed the ninth-grader’s arrest was part of a plot by Obama to undermine national security.

“This story is pure agitprop most fatal,” Geller warned. “’If you see something, say something’ is now racism.”

She complained that Mohamed, who has been invited to meet the president, NASA officials and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, had become a “media star.”

“The whole thing has clearly been a setup, and its effect will be to make Americans less safe,” Geller said. “If you ever see a Muslim with a suspicious object, remember the lesson of Ahmed Mohamed: to say something would be ‘racism.’ That could end up being the epitaph of America and the free world.”

Geller compared the teen, whose device police never once suspected was an actual explosive device, to other westerners accused of trying to join or assist Islamic State militants.

She also accused the teen’s family of engaging in Muslim “supremacist stunts,” such as debating a Koran-burning Florida pastor and other anti-Islam commentators.

The chief of Irving police said Mohamed was arrested because he refused to offer another explanation for the device besides describing it as a clock whose purpose was to measure time.

But Jim Hanson, vice president of the anti-Muslim Center for Security Policy, described the boy’s homemade device as “half a bomb,” reported The Intercept.

“It looks exactly like a number of IED triggers that were produced by the Iranians and used to kill U.S. troops in the war in Iraq,” Hanson said.

Frank Gaffney, the think tank’s founder and president, agreed and warned that the story had not been fully explored or explained.

Gaffney — a close ally of Geller’s and the organizer of last week’s anti-Iran rally featuring Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sarah Palin — said the controversy was an “influence operation” by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

He said the civil rights group was using “professional victim-promoting” to wage “civilization jihad” with the assistance of the Muslim Brotherhood.

The anti-government Oath Keepers group complained that schools are too quick to punish students for wearing NRA T-shirts or carrying “Wonder Woman” lunch boxes — but then said Mohamed’s teacher was right to alert authorities to the boy’s clock.

“For that, she and the police — who responded responsibly and in good faith, and who had no way of knowing otherwise until they’d had a chance to investigate — are now the subjects of ‘progressive condemnation,” wrote Oath Keeper David Codrea. “As is anyone who believe a prime function of government is to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, as opposed to flooding the Republic with inimical alien cultures.”

“The Opposite Day madness of the ginned up outrage is that the teacher did exactly what Obama’s Department of Homeland Security tells citizens to do,” he added. “Hell, they’ve even trademarked it: If You See Something Say Something.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/conservatives-warn-ahmed-mohameds-arrest-was-terrorist-setup-to-make-islamophobia-seem-racist/

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Fox host: Ahmed Mohamed ‘did a really dumb thing’ by building clock and wanting to show it to teacher

“This story is really — I mean it has everyone I think scratching their heads. This clock — does anyone think that it did not look like a dangerous weapon out of a Die Hard movie?” Tantaros said on Fox News’ Outnumbered.

The incident quickly became international news, and President Barack Obama invited the science-loving teen to the White House.

But Tantaros said inviting the teen to the White House could hurt national security.

“What the president did, Sandra, by elevating this story to national attention, is he basically got rid of ‘if you see something, say something,'” the Fox host remarked. “The teacher did her job. We have an FBI document out there right now that talks about what to look for. Okay? This is part of it and we’ve seen terror attacks before. We’ve seen them use cell phones and innate objects.

“And look, Ahmed is a smart kid. He’s probably going to go to MIT and make a ton of money, but he did a really dumb thing and brought it to school and the president just elevated this to a national issue that doesn’t deserve elevating frankly.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/fox-host-ahmed-mohamed-dumb-for-building-a-clock-and-wanting-to-show-it-to-teacher/

 

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Oh my god.  This story is just tragic.

[SychosSoChic 9,995]

FOX news can you just get some chill pls  

Like who are these hosts looking like Brazzers extras, spouting this nasty ass BS  

Right-wing America needs to do the 5 Gs.

 

 

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Jesus how  is this even happening 

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The discussion surrounding this topic is really illuminating everything that's wrong with the current conservative base. The amount of mental gymnastics and obvious double standards they have to pass off to try and make what happened to him seem acceptable.