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.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Knowledge Troll on Wednesday November 25 2015, @07:27AM
It's weird really, the amount of criticism of this boy I've seen on the Internet.
There's plenty of weird all around. Here is my view: this entire situation is a gigantic ball of fucked up and retarded. No one wins and it is not clear at all who needs to be "blamed" as if that would fix something. There are so many valid and invalid opinions being spread around I still have not increased my signal to noise ratio on this topic. On one hand when I brought electronics to high school that I had tinkered with it made people nervous and I stopped doing it. That was 20 years ago and I'm not brown. The kid should definitely tinker and play with electronics, that is a good thing.
On the other hand: if this kids parents are not carefully explaining to him what is going on he is going to be warped as fuck when he hits the workplace. Imagine this conversation after his first day at work:
clock kid> Hi boss, here I took apart an automatic cat water dispenser and duct taped it to the inside of a suit case. It'll be the best selling product in history. When do I get my promotion to CEO?
boss> Uhm. What? It doesn't work that way.
clock kid> Oh really? The last time I did this I wound up on the news and I had dinner with the president in his house. What is your problem?