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Ahmed The Clock Kid Suing School and Police For $15,000,000.00

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 24 2015, @11:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the quit-yer-whining dept.
From the Independent:

The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texan schoolboy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to school, has demanded $15m in compensation and written apologies from the local mayor and police chief.

In letters sent on Monday, the lawyers said if the City of Irving and Irving School District did not agree to the apologies and compensation, they would file a civil action.

"Ahmed never threatened anyone, never caused harm to anyone, and never intended to. The only one who was hurt that day was Ahmed, and the damages he suffered were not because of oversight or incompetence," said the letter to the city authorities.

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:42PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:42PM (#268132) Journal
    As an aside, these breezy accusations of bigotry are starting to sound suspiciously like claiming everyone is bigoted. If you are indeed heading that way, how would you square that with the earlier poster's assertion that "bigotry should carry a hefty price"? If every one is penalized for their bigotry by a "hefty price", then that sounds a lot like Gandhi's quote on "eye for an eye" justice, namely, that it makes the whole world go blind (and not in the desired, discrimination-free way).