Ahmed Mohamed’s Family Hires Lawyers To Get His Clock Back From Police

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives to his family's home in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Ahmed was arrested Monday at his school after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. He rema... Ahmed Mohamed, 14, gestures as he arrives to his family's home in Irving, Texas, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. Ahmed was arrested Monday at his school after a teacher thought a homemade clock he built was a bomb. He remains suspended and said he will not return to classes at MacArthur High School. (AP Photo/LM Otero) MORE LESS
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President Obama may have invited Ahmed Mohamed to bring his now-famous homemade clock to the White House — but the high schooler is going to have to get it back from the cops first.

Mohamed’s family has hired lawyers to get it back after police seized it during his wrongful arrest earlier this month, according to a Wednesday report by NBC News.

Mohamed, 14, was arrested at his high school in a Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas earlier this month when police mistakenly thought his clock, which he brought to school to impress his teacher, was a bomb.

Afterward, Mohamed received invitations to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Austin, and Facebook. He also got an invitation to go to the White House from President Obama:

Two lawyers from Dallas had been hired “to pursue Ahmed’s legal rights and regain his science project from the Irving Police Department,” according to a statement Wednesday from the family, as cited by NBC.

Ahmed and his two siblings were also removed from the district and homeschooled, “because of religious persecution,” the statement said, according to NBC.

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  1. No charges, media firestorm, yet they are holding his clock.

    Are they being stupid or petty?

  2. Stupid or petty? Both!

    If I were their lawyer, I’d sue for a lot more than just the clock.

    Why on Earth are the police still holding it? Makes no sense whatsoever.

  3. when police mistakenly thought his clock, which he brought to school to impress his teacher, was a bomb.

    No, the police never said it was a bomb. They said it was a “hoax bomb”. And that’s why they are still holding it. They dropped the charges because they said they had no evidence he was using it to cause alarm, which is what violating the Statute requires. But they have never backed off that it a “suspicious device”, so the device rightfully remains in their possession as long as they want to keep it. The police gave the kid the benefit of the doubt and called it a “naive accident”. Smart move, defuse the situation. If this family has any brains, they will do the same. It’s just an old existing clock the kid took the housing off (took off a few screws), then stuck it in a case, and cut out the case to make the numbers visible…and it was active…and the alarm went off in class.

    Shoddy journalism.

  4. This doesn’t surprise me that they’d hold onto the clock in an attempt to look legit.

    For more bat-shit crazy tea party extremism on the clock and the boy, look at this link I saw “liked” on facebook:
    http://conservativetribune.com/mayor-bomb-clock-kid-town/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=TPNNPages&utm_content=2015-09-23

    Willfully ignorant, brain damaged neanderthals that I would laugh and scoff at if they weren’t actively creating a worse world around me. I loath these people.

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