His lawyers insist that the school, police force and city officials violated Mohamed’s rights by wrongfully accusing and detaining him and then made a decision to “trash” him when the media got wind of the story.
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On Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily (6AM-9AM ET on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125), Pamela Geller accused “Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed and his family of exploiting the war that Muslim radicals are waging against the westerners by suing Irving, Texas and the local school district for $15 million.
His family later accepted a foundation’s offer to pay for Ahmed’s education in Qatar and moved to the Persian Gulf country.
Irving’s city attorney and the district have not commented on the letters as of Monday evening.
His attorneys’ notice gave the city of Irving 60 days to respond to the demands, noting they will otherwise file a civil lawsuit. He was arrested but never charged.
After the incident, the 14-year-old went on a worldwide tour, meeting President Barack Obama at the White House and foreign leaders as well, including the genocidal Islamic dictator of Sudan.
Rather than calming the situation, Hollingsworth says in the letters, officials in Irving stoked the flames. “They have even implied publicly that what has come of this has been good for Ahmed, as though the resilience of this fine boy and his fine family somehow excused what they did”, the letters say. The teen was detained by Irving police officers and interrogated for over an hour about his clock, which teachers believed was a bomb.
“I don’t know what more you can do to a kid who brought what he knew looked like a bomb”, she said.
“What has happened to this family is inexcusable”, said Kelly Hollingsworth, an attorney for Mohamed and his family.
The letters claim Ahmed was singled out “because of his race, national origin, and religion”.
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His lawyers are asking for $10m (£7m) from the city of Irving and $5m (£3.3m) from the Irving Independent School District, saying that Ahmed was “publically mistreated” and remains scarred.
