#IStandWithAhmed: President Obama Invites Ahmed Mohamed to White House to Show Him Clock Mistaken...

[Purveyor]

Source: ABC News

President Obama has tweeted from his official personal account, inviting Ahmed Mohamed to the White House to show him the clock invention that was mistaken for a bomb.

"Cool clock, Ahmed," the president tweeted today. "Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It's what makes America great."

Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Tex., was taken into police custody Monday when his homemade digital clock was mistaken for a bomb by school officials and the police.

Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said at a news conference today that no charges will be brought against Mohamed for bringing a “suspicious device” to school.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/istandwithahmed-president-obama-invites-ahmed-mohamed-white-house/story?id=33804323

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[Javaman]

1. "suspicious device"?

it was a fucking clock!

it's people like the city mayor and the halfwit barney fife cops of that town that really make it hard for me to still like Texas.

I live in Austin

[L. Coyote]

5. The cops say Ahmed refused to say what his clock was for.

Man, you can look up "clock" on the internet. They have internet in TX, not?

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[Javaman]

18. I'm beginning to thing the cops in Irving don't even have watches.

morons

[Kingofalldems]

2. Fox news will go nuts over this one.

[JoePhilly]

3. Obama is trolling them.

I love when he dies stuff like this.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. He's doing a BIG TIME ultimate troll

And it's gone all viral.

The kid's parents are Sudanese immigrants.

[L. Coyote]

21. So, it's a first generation clock.

Or, should I say, first generation Islamophobe detector?

[BumRushDaShow]

22. Every single time, the memes write themselves.

[fbc]

10. Yep! :)

[yuiyoshida]

6. oh yeah they will

big time, you can bet on it.

[alcina]

4. Excellent! /nt

[left-of-center2012]

8. Muslim with a 'timing device'

That spells 'guilty' in Texas

Maybe that's why many Texans seem to be living in the past?

[Skwmom]

9. Good for President Obama. n/t

[Jarqui]

11. I just love this president

To reach out and help heal the injury this young boy sustained.
Every American really matters to this president.
And that makes me feel really good.

[TheBlackAdder]

12. The ironic part... The Secret Service will inspect it before the President does! nt

[DFW]

13. And they will find..........

Just what my stupid fellow Texans would have found if they had bothered to look: a clock.

[Lychee2]

14. Here is a pic of Ahmed's clock.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2362805.1442423107!/img/httpImage/image.jpg

Would you immediately recognize that as a clock?

Good detailed story here:

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/W20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

[Fred Sanders]

15. Would you immediately suspect it as a bomb? What if a white Christian had it? And after 6 hours of inspection and interrogation?

Maybe you forgot the sarcasm emoticon?

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Side by side though, seeing these pictures of the clock and the boy, I truly can see how some folks, including trained police officers in certain areas of America, may suspect it was a bomb and reject the explanations of a 12 year old brown boy even as they examined the clock and interrogated the child for 8 hours in custody.

And neither the police, school, or city issued a word of concern or regret or apology for the child and his family.....which is why the invite...to tell Americans who think this way to STFU.

Scary Cat America....even with it's outrageous military and security spending...it is laugh out loud craziness.

[itsrobert]

16. Good for him. But I don't think he invented a clock

Digital clocks have been around for a long time.

"clock invention"

poor choice of words by the media?

[Kingofalldems]

17. Kick this one.

[Sunlei]

19. Ahmed Mohamed, said this am interview, yes, he will meet the President. :)))))

I'm ashamed of our schools and how our country especially the most local of "authorities" treat everyone like terrorists and criminals.

[Frank Cannon]

20. Who would build a bomb with a giant LED time display?

I mean, outside of the props department of the old TV series Alias.