Wow. If this did indeed come from Obama then the school administration are gonna be feeling pretty damn awkward today.
Has anyone discussed the legal ramifications the school/police might have to deal with? I would assume this kid is in line for some defty compensation if everything reported is correct?
Why would they charge him with creating a hoax? The teachers that cried bomb threats should be penalized, not the student.
Am I missing something here? It's starting to look like he is the victim of a conspiracy where the administration and local PD trumped up the charges, I wouldn't be surprised if the state attorney general would've loved to have sunk his teeth in too.
This whole situation is as much about blatant racism and fear mongering as it is about the viciousness of state-backed prosecutorial adventurism.
A source I read earlier said that he also would not be charged with "intent to cause alarm". Although the clock did have an alarm function (it beeped in class and the teacher that reported him commented on it). You can't make this stuff up.
> If this did indeed come from Obama then the school administration are gonna be feeling pretty damn awkward today.
Or validated: in lots of parts of the country, the culture is such that being on the opposite side of an issue from President Obama is prima facie evidence of the correctness of your actions. (And same with Zuck and other, as they might be describe, "coastal liberal elites".)
My initial reaction to hearing influential people were standing up for this kid was one of happiness but I can totally see the "hoax bomb" narrative getting extended to the President by some of the people I interact with here [edit: here where I am standing, not here on HN]: "Did you hear that this kid made a hoax bomb and took it to school and Obama invited him to the White House as a reward???"
On the bright side, maybe the anti-Obama knee jerk will be counteracted by the outrage "girl chewed PopTart into shape of gun, got suspended" stories tend to generate around here.
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Has anyone discussed the legal ramifications the school/police might have to deal with? I would assume this kid is in line for some defty compensation if everything reported is correct?
http://www.theverge.com/2015/9/16/9338113/ahmed-mohamed-cloc...
Am I missing something here? It's starting to look like he is the victim of a conspiracy where the administration and local PD trumped up the charges, I wouldn't be surprised if the state attorney general would've loved to have sunk his teeth in too.
This whole situation is as much about blatant racism and fear mongering as it is about the viciousness of state-backed prosecutorial adventurism.
Teachers & school deserve opprobrium; not sure the police do in this instance.
Or validated: in lots of parts of the country, the culture is such that being on the opposite side of an issue from President Obama is prima facie evidence of the correctness of your actions. (And same with Zuck and other, as they might be describe, "coastal liberal elites".)
My initial reaction to hearing influential people were standing up for this kid was one of happiness but I can totally see the "hoax bomb" narrative getting extended to the President by some of the people I interact with here [edit: here where I am standing, not here on HN]: "Did you hear that this kid made a hoax bomb and took it to school and Obama invited him to the White House as a reward???"
On the bright side, maybe the anti-Obama knee jerk will be counteracted by the outrage "girl chewed PopTart into shape of gun, got suspended" stories tend to generate around here.
Barrack Obama: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
Hillary Clinton: https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/644167278196600832
Chris Hadfield:https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/644177398553030656