The lawsuit, filed Monday by Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassen Mohamed, maintains that Ahmed’s civil rights were violated by the Irving Independent School District, MacArthur High School Principal Daniel Cummings and the city of Irving, near Dallas.
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“I lost a lot of things in my life”, Ahmed Mohamed told The Washington Post. The death threats are said to be one of the reasons as to why the family chose to move to Qatar. I can’t walk out of the house without being covered up because I might get shot because that happens here.
“This is something Ahmed has experienced from the beginning”, Stoy said to the LA Times.
Following the incidence, the innocent Black teen and his family relocated to Qatar due to the later uproar.
In October, Ahmed and his family moved to Qatar after receiving a full scholarship to attend an innovation school in Doha, the country’s capital. The lawsuit is in the right direction.
President Barack Obama tweeted Mohamed an invitation to a White House event after complimenting the clock design.
“He would not have been treated the way he was treated had he not been an African American and a Muslim”, Hutchison said. Mohamed was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers on Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school.
“Clock Boy” Ahmed Mohamed told reporters Monday he lost the ability to create and has “no schedule” until he returns to Qatar for school.
The lawsuit described how Ahmed made an alarm clock, seen above, out of a pencil box and other materials and brought it to school..
Ahmed is far from the only Muslim teen to face discrimination at school. “It’s basically like America”, said Ahmed’s 18-year-old sister, Eyman.
“The school “gets a “D” for Anti-Muslim sentiment and politicizing history, it gets an ‘F” for continuing a long tradition of racial disparity in student discipline'”.
“In the case of Ahmed Mohamed, we have the opportunity to take a stand for equality and for justice, two things that should prevail above all else”, it continued. “When we have given in to fear and hate, we flounder”. News outlets nicknamed him “Clock Boy”.
The lawsuit seeks an unspecified amount of damages.
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“As with any legal matter of this nature, attorneys for the school district will review the filing and respond as appropriate”, the school district stated. The new lawsuit claims that the school system and the state discriminated against Mohamed in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and violated his constitutional protections against illegal arrest and unequal treatment.
