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

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by wireties

"Deserve" applies to the persons, organizations and townships you were accusing of racial injustice, not the "symbol". Your last several posts have not mentioned racial injustice. So if we are, for some reason, in need of a symbol to advocate for technology savvy teenage American Muslims then Ahmed works.

We have the need to advocate for a technology savvy teenage American Muslim because of racial injustice.

We're never going to have definitive proof either way regarding the precise motivations of the individuals who detained Ahmed. That doesn't mean we can't take positive action. Nobody here is arguing those individuals be held accountable for those actions. What we're doing instead is taking a negative event and attempting to use it for positive gains.

Originally Posted by wireties

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.

Once again, if anyone truly feared it was a bomb or they blindly followed a "zero tolerance" policy that was in place, they would have evacuated the school and called the bomb squad.