Omg
Peace House
I love it!
Lol the video is Hilarious. Seriously though, the Ahmed clock is suspicious as hell with simple common sense. He did not invent or assemble anything; he literally opened a commercial clock and stuffed the electronics in a pencil case.
A pencil case like this?
Perhaps a transparent one?
No. This one.
To make matters worse, by Ahmed’s admission, he chose to shut it down by tying a cable on it rather than use a mechanism, so it wouldn’t look that suspicious (unless he drilled a hole, I don’t see how he can lock it with a mechanism with that cable). So he knew that it looked suspicious?
Furthermore, the clock was not running on batteries; it had to be plugged in. His engineering teacher asked him to not show it to any teacher; regrettably racism and islamophobia exists. But what was that clock doing plugged in, and what caused it to be set up to raise an alarm during class?
The school staff and police were wrong to make an arrest and they blew the thing way out of proportion, but Ahmed could’ve resolved the issue at multiple points by calling the engineering teacher to clarify what it is.
What is to blame seems to be the Zero-Tolerance policy as a whole rather than outright racism (although it likely contributed as a bias); it is very plausible that someone brought the pencil case clock he would get the same treatment regardless of ethnicity; most school shooters in recent memory happen to lack dark skin tone. If some white kid chose to wear a white robe in Martin Luthor King’s anniversary, and then said that he decided to cosplay as a ghost and the Klan never cross his mind, he would probably get suspended nonetheless for being suspicious.
But what do ya know, media does what it does best.
