Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim teenager who was arrested for bringing a homemade digital clock to his suburban Dallas high school, said his arrest had scary moments, but he knew he would be vindicated during a Wednesday interview on “The Nightly Show.”
Wilmore got straight to the point: “How long did it take you to build the bomb?”
It only took 10-20 minutes, Mohamed said.
“But be honest, keep it 100. Was it a little cool to be arrested?” Wilmore asked. “It does give you a little street cred.”
Mohamed’s answer? “It was kind of cool,” the 14-year-old told Wilmore. “The only reason I felt cool was because I knew I was innocent.”
But part of the experience was scary, he said.
“Yeah, where the cops almost made me do the Nae, Nae backwards, where my arm went all the way (back),” Mohamed said. “The cops what they do was, you see right here, pull my arm all the way up where I could.”
The Comedy Central host even had a gift for the Sudanese-American teenager: an Apple Watch.
Watch the full interview, from Comedy Central, below:
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