Ahmed Mohamed will not face charges related to device [pdf]

Post by gress » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:06 AM UTC

jcfrei wrote: post #21

blizkreeg wrote: post #10

I'm glad Ahmed got all the support and encouragement he did but not one person of note/power, including Obama and Hillary Clinton (who offered their cute tweets) have talked of punishing, penalizing, or in the very least reprimanding the officers and teachers who put him through this. How is that? It's criminal to handcuff and interrogate a 14-yr old in front of his entire class and school when they found nothing to…

>I'm glad Ahmed got all the support and encouragement he did but not one person of note/power, including Obama and Hillary Clinton (who offered their cute tweets) have talked of punishing, penalizing, or in the very least reprimanding the officers and teachers who put him through this. How is that? Maybe because the world has bigger problems than one police officer and a teacher acting out of line. It's a story the i…

Post by patrickaljord » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:07 AM UTC

bane wrote: post #14

I really really hope he wins a multi-million dollar lawsuit for wrongful arrest and turns it into a billion dollar company that makes precision timepieces.

Post by rhizome » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:12 AM UTC

blizkreeg wrote: post #19

rhizome wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Officer safety" is statutory language that supports a whole host of discretionary powers, from handcuffing to shooting dead. It's criminal to handcuff and interrogate a 14-yr old in front of his entire class and school when they found nothing to implicate him. It maybe should be, but isn't. However, what is illegal is questioning him without his parents or a lawyer present, which he requested multiple times to no ef…

I meant criminal in a metaphorical sense. But shouldn't they be prosecuted for questioning him without parental consent or presence, at least?

Post by blakeja » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:14 AM UTC

blizkreeg wrote: post #24

jcfrei wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I'm glad Ahmed got all the support and encouragement he did but not one person of note/power, including Obama and Hillary Clinton (who offered their cute tweets) have talked of punishing, penalizing, or in the very least reprimanding the officers and teachers who put him through this. How is that? Maybe because the world has bigger problems than one police officer and a teacher acting out of line. It's a story the i…

By that measure, unless someone dies, nothing is important. Couldn't you conceive of a situation where he (let's say out of panic) acts weird and an officer shoots him dead on suspicion of a suitcase containing a bomb? Would that make it important enough?

Post by Gigablah » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 1:16 AM UTC

blakeja wrote: post #37

blizkreeg wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By that measure, unless someone dies, nothing is important. Couldn't you conceive of a situation where he (let's say out of panic) acts weird and an officer shoots him dead on suspicion of a suitcase containing a bomb? Would that make it important enough?

Funny you should put it like that. Now that actual pictures of the "digital clock" are available, that is first time I have seen a clock built into a metal suitcase that, golly gee, somewhat resembles a bomb. Ya'll are being absurd. That kid new what he was doing, I did stupid shit like that when I his age...worse in fact, these days I would have made national headlines if I had been caught. So I know what I am talki…