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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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Ahmed The Clock Kid Suing School and Police For $15,000,000.00
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @03:28AM
...but perhaps it was because you failed to mention that Ahmed's sister had been suspended 3 years earlier from a middle school in the same district for her own involvement in a bomb threat.
Funny that you omitted the word 'alleged' when even your link managed to be pretty clear about it. In any event, here's the problem with your link: It provides no evidence. One possibility, the one you're leaning heavily on, is that she made a bomb threat. Another possibility is that... oh and this is good... that this community likes to tease people of a certain religion about making bombs. Call that one a draw.
There is also a telephone interview out there where you can hear Ahmed hesitate and being prompted by his sister on how to respond.
Gee, imagine someone choosing their words carefully while people run around trying to dig up dirt on their family.
Nope, this family is all about the drama and persecution.
Mm hmm.
(Score: 1) by CaTfiSh on Wednesday November 25 2015, @04:30AM
Fair enough, the details aren't out there specifically and the sister states it was someone else. Funny coincidence though, isn't it?
Is it that much easier for you to believe that an entire town is out to target a single family, rather than their rather petulant and militant father has an agenda to push?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @05:53AM
Funny coincidence though, isn't it?
No. Too many Americans associate Muslims with bombs.
Is it that much easier for you to believe that an entire town is out to target a single family, rather than their rather petulant and militant father has an agenda to push?
Yes. Turn the news on and listen for the word 'refugee'.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday November 25 2015, @06:00AM
It's much easier to believe that we live in a paranoid nation that will go insane over anything that could even conceivably be a bomb, even if the chances of that are 0.00000000000000000000000000000000001%. People making bomb jokes on Twitter spark a ridiculous response from the government. Then there are cases like this [wikipedia.org] and many more. And how many times have we seen schools totally overreact to things which shouldn't be against the rules anyway, like kids pointing their fingers at other kids and pretending their fingers are guns? With all this paranoia and zero tolerance nonsense, it's not hard for me to believe that the school, government, and even a lot of the citizens are just being insane.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @09:52AM
Wanna bet catfish would be the first to complain about that insanity if the victim weren't muslim?
(Score: 1) by CaTfiSh on Wednesday November 25 2015, @04:02PM
You'd lose that bet, but nice try at deflecting my points by characterizing me as a bigot.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @04:56PM
So you would be totally OK with all the crazy shit happening to anybody?
(Score: 2) by dyingtolive on Wednesday November 25 2015, @10:10AM
You remember that time there was a bomb threat at a school? We had at least one yearly, and had only maybe 400 kids at the high school. I could count the number of not-white kids there on one hand.
A Muslim kid would have provided us with countless amounts of fun, and all of what I'm saying is from a pre-police-state world. I was sleeping in Spanish class in my senior year when that went down.
Don't blame me, I voted for moose wang!