Irving mayor defends arrest of Muslim teen with clock...

[yuiyoshida]

Irving mayor defends arrest of Muslim teen with clock: ‘To the best of my knowledge, they followed protocol’

The anti-Muslim Republican mayor of Irving, Texas released a statement on Wednesday without a word of apology or sympathy for the 14-year-old science student who was arrested because school officials thought the digital clock he built was a bomb.

At around 1 p.m. on Monday afternoon Mayor Beth Van Duyne posted a statement to Facebook in which she said that the school district had erred in calling police on student Ahmed Mohamed, but did not offer a formal apology to Mohamed or his family.

At some point, Van Duyne — perhaps having been called out for the statement’s chilly tone and lack of sympathy — edited the statement to add a final paragraph saying that she understood why Mohamed’s family might be upset, but she still did not apologize on behalf of the city government or the school.

The first part of the mayor’s statement reads as follows:,,,

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/irving-mayor-defends-arrest-of-muslim-teen-with-clock-to-the-best-of-my-knowledge-they-followed-protocol/

[MrScorpio]

1. Hello, right wing, Muslim hating nut job...

Any good clocks blow up around you yet?

[bobalew]

2. How the F*ck did they manage to elect a soulless "Stepford Wife" to that position?

I guess anyone with a basic set of intelligence is automatically considered out of the norm, in what appears to be a majority of MORONS.

[left-of-center2012]

13. How the F*ck did they manage to elect a soulless "Stepford Wife" to that position?

Because she looks like the talking heads they see on Fox News?

[HooptieWagon]

3. I doubt a large lawsuit/settlement will teach her empathy...

But it will make the family feel a little better.
The only avenue for change right now is the civil courts, hitting them hard in the pocketbooks, until the cost of liability insurance gets so high the PDs are forced into reform.

[yuiyoshida]

4. Ya gotta wonder, if she was voted in

cause of her "Fox News" look...

[awoke_in_2003]

14. It is strange...

as Irving has a huge Mexican American population. Were our party smart, they would work on GOTV over there (I live about 15 miles from Irving).

[Gothmog]

5. This lady is a racist/islamaphobic idiot

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. And then the idiot has the gall to edit her Facebook page.....

https://twitter.com/aviselk/status/644218464622678016

[yuiyoshida]

10. Retweeted this

[BlueJazz]

7. We had a discussion the other day on Robot Sex dolls. Is that one of them?

I don't mean to be disrespectful...yeah, I do...anyway, looks like she's made out of some high-tech compound or something..

[Rex]

8. It was for an engineering class, a project to build something.

He built a clock, but he was the WRONG color and got arrested...because '9/11 changed everything'. Yeah it did and in some really harmful ways to our younger generations.

Thankfully the POTUS is taking care of this and in STYLE!

[Jim__]

9. How the fuck is it protocol to arrest someone for having a clock?

If that's protocol, then protocol needs to be changed.

[PoliticAverse]

11. Apparently it was zero-tolerance time. n/t

[Statistical]

12. DSWB

Doing Science While Black.