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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a) One more foot soldier in the war against police brutality…b) “backwards Nae Nae?” lmfao!
If the school and police really thought it was a bomb, why didn’t they evacuate the school and bring in the bomb squad?
They thought it was a fake bomb, in other words intended to look like a bomb for some reason. There are people, not just wingers, making a legitimate point that taking apart an alarm clock and putting it in a different case is not a very sophisticated science project.
Okay, I kind of like the kid, but isn’t anyone else tiring of hearing about him?
Exactly, I’ve seen teenage kids that have done amazing things in the field of science. And I am not saying he has not, but this clock was definitely not one of them if that’s the case. He took the housing off an existing clock, stuck it in a little case, made the numbers shine through, and tied a cable around it. He even said he did it in 10-20 minutes.
What he essentially did was make a new housing for a clock. Wait, he did not even do that. The housing was existing too. A mini-case…with a cable tied around it, so you could not even stand it up on edge or the case would fall over. How is that innovative? A clock that can’t even stand up?