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Originally Posted by logank013

At this point, race has nothing to did with our side of the argument. No matter what race he is, it was all on the teacher and admin for thinking it was a hoax bomb.

It was a clock! We know that. Ahmed's engineering teacher knew it was a clock. But should we expect the same of an English teacher? As I've stated for several times, it does not matter what Ahmed thought or what he claimed to any party involved. To be a hoax under Texas law the device need only "cause concern to an authority figure". The teacher and school administration had enough doubt to pass the decision to the police who decided it was not a hoax and that Ahmed was harmless. We do not know if anyone involved stated under oath they thought the device was an intentional hoax. They were confused and/or passing the buck and/or following zero tolerance policies. We do not know why the police detained Ahmed. Some sort of profiling could be a factor but we do not know that. Not yet.