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Re: Can someone in the Irving TX area "draft" this young man?

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The school didn't evacuate because it was a clock. Not a bomb. It was a clock. Not a hoax bomb. It was a clock.
If the kid brought his case to us we would know it was a clock he took apart. And it seems his engineering teacher knew it was a clock but told him to put it away and not show it around. But it was his English teacher that took the device to the administration (after the alarm went off apparently). It is not unreasonable than an English teacher would not be sure what was going on.

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Once the teacher went to the administration and they called the police it became a racial attack on a 14 year old boy and his family by 3 police officers. (Not to let the school off the hook)
Lots of schools have zero tolerance policies about things like this (we live about 30 miles from this school and I assume the policies are similar). The administration personnel involved could lose their jobs if they did not refer it to the police. And the police have standard procedures which did result in no charges (after taking too long).

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Not a bomb. Not a hoax bomb. Racial attack of a brown boy that has a Muslim name and is of the Muslim faith and has well known brown parents who are well know for their Muslim faith and activism. Attack by police in a town who's Mayor is a well known ilsamphobic.
The mayor of Irving is a goofball. But should we infer that every public official in the town is a racist. Isn't that taking things too far?

What is and is not a "hoax bomb" is not up to us. The law literally says anything than can "cause concern to an official".

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Not a bomb. Racial attack.
With respect, we do not know this. And charging a wide array of persons with racism is pretty out there. Note that this high school is less than 14% white so people of different colors and backgrounds is the overwhelming norm. Given the lack of information from both sides, is it responsible to throw the racism card at every turn?

Something is amiss that leads to this kid getting treated so poorly. But I'm thinking bureaucracy is more to blame.
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