He also pointed out that the idea that Mohamed could’ve brought a bomb to school wasn’t unfounded, as several American teenagers have joined ISIS to the shock of people who knew them well. A post that has been doing the rounds on Facebook said how there was no real bomb scare and the school wasn’t even evacuated, which should have been the case had the authorities really believed that Ahmed was carrying a bomb. “What is this world you’re living in?” he says in the video.
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Pearson said it took longer for the president to lower the flag to half staff after shootings in Chattanooga, Tennessee, than it did to light the White House in rainbow colors when the Supreme Court made same-sex marriage legal across the country.
A sign supporting Ahmed Mohamed is held up in front of MacArthur High School at a prayer vigil, Thursday, September 17, 2015, in Irving, Texas. Google invited the kid to their weekend science fair and MIT invited him also to visit their campus. Civil-rights groups complained that if Ahmed had been a white student, the clock would have been seen as nothing more than an electronic timepiece.
“I sometimes wonder if the author of the books I enjoyed so much is the same person as the one writing some of these tweets” wrote another.
“This is the kind of stuff Obama needs to STAY out of”, she fumed.
When a photo of Ahmed in handcuffs was posted online, it ignited a veritable firestorm throughout social media spheres.
In an official comment, Irving Police Spokesman stated, “We attempted to question the juvenile about what it was and he would simply only tell us that it was a clock“. Want to bring it to the White House?
President Obama received mostly positive reactions to the tweet, but Bristol Palin took issue with it, as previously reported by Inquisitr. President Obama even the 14-year-old to the White House, which has drawn the ire of Pearson. “The future belongs to people like Ahmed”. “It’s what makes America great”.
At the news conference, Ahmed’s father, Mohamed El Hassan, 54, who immigrated to the United States from Sudan, praised his son’s ingenuity.
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“We’re not pointing a finger at the school district or the police department”, Hamideh said.
