Irving, Texas, authorities say no charges will be filed against high school student, Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school.
Mohamed, 14, who is Muslim, is active in the robotics club in middle school and wanted to show his new teacher he new innovation.
Mohamed showed the clock to his English teacher, who said that it looked like a bomb, and confiscated it. Mohamed was pulled out of class, and brought to the school principal and five police officers. According to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, he was questioned, handcuffed, and taken to Irving police headquarters for interrogation, fingerprinting, and mug shots, even though he repeatedly insisted that it was a clock. h/t nbcnews
“Clearly, there were disassembled clock parts in there, but he offered no more explanation than that,” Irving Police Officer James McLellan told NBC Dallas Fort Worth.
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