Ahmed Mohamed, the Texas high school freshman who was arrested in September after he brought a clock to school, finally got it back, more than a month after he was placed in handcuffs.
Here’s his excited tweet about the clock’s return:
GOT MY CLOCK BACK FINALLY!!?? pic.twitter.com/7k9GXB7M4H
— Ahmed Mohamed (@IStandWithAhmed) October 23, 2015
One of Ahmed’s uncles, Aldean Mohamed, told the Dallas Morning News the police were “very nice,” but didn’t say much when he picked up the clock on Friday.
What a waste and we wonder why we have no skilled workers or inspiring young people. This is actually a very scary precedent. Because of one bigoted women in a small Texas town and a huge contingent of bigots in our country this family has been run out of the country. Why can’t we just run the bigoted woman out of office and country and keep the kid and his family? In the long run we would be better off.
This sounds like a bright and shiny future, but what about the friends he is leaving behind, what about the adjustment to another country for him and his family, no pressure there to succeed is there?
Not the first nor the last family to decide to seek greener pastures elsewhere. I decided ten years ago that I’d rather raise my kids in Canada.
So it took these genius Barney Fife’s a month to figure out what a clock is and does? Welcome to know-nothing America.
Ahmed will be OK, but for his sisters, after growing to be teens in the U.S. Qatar will seem like prison.
They should have kept it. Maybe it would have helped them figure out what time it is.