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Originally Posted by Cory
... the culture change they need is to stop seeing any non-white person as a terrorist...
The problem isn't that they couldn't figure out he had a clock and not a bomb...it's that they saw a brown kid with both "Ahmed" and "Mohamed" in his name and freaked out because they're either subconsciously or outwardly racist/Islamophobic.
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With respect we should be careful about making such accusations. The teacher(s) may have been confused. It may be zero-tolerance school policy to call the police (also maybe a bad idea but made by the school board not the teachers, counselors and principals). Then the police dropped it (though not nearly as quickly as they should have).
The one thing we can report, from the facts, is that the mayor's statement was ridiculous and *phobic. And we can conclude that many kids of all races and religions get in trouble at school for silly stuff (chewing pop-tarts into the shape of a gun etc).
This student was the victim of a huge injustice. But I blame the bureaucracy!