How many kids get in trouble taking a toaster, vacuum cleaner, radio, of some other device apart. Do they get to take it to school after that and not expect to be questioned about it?
We don't live in the same world as we did before 9/11, Columbine or even Kaczynski.
Do they get arrested and questioned by police WITHOUT their parents knowledge? This is the U.S.
He was questioned at school. After the police took him to the station, he waited for his parents.
Bomb or no bomb, to many it looked like the workings of a bomb. Police should not have been called? They should have just given him a pat on the head (oh wait, that would have been police abuse). His clock had no business at school and not disrupting class by going off.
Police Violated Ahmed Mohamed’s Civil Rights by Keeping Away His Parents
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he law is clear: Juveniles in Texas may have a parent, guardian, or attorney present during interrogation. Mohamed was repeatedly denied this request.
Irving, Texas, police violated Ahmed Mohamed’s civil rights by denying his repeated requests to speak with his parents during his detention for a purported bomb that was in fact a clock.
Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School, insists he repeatedly asked officers to call his parents while being interrogated. Mohamed was questioned at the school, then taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center, where he was fingerprinted and interrogated without his parents present, according to police and Mohamed.
Texas Family Code is clear this was not supposed to happen.
“A child may not be left unattended in a juvenile processing office and is entitled to be accompanied by the child’s parent, guardian, or other custodian or by the child’s attorney,” Section 52.025 (PDF) states.
Mohamed did not see his parents until he was released from a juvenile detention center, according to police and his family.
Furthermore, a “person taking a child into custody shall promptly give notice of the person’s action and a statement of the reason for taking the child into custody, to the child’s parent, guardian, or custodian.”
Irving Police Chief Larry Boyd said he did “not have answers to [that] specific question” when reporters asked him Wednesday why Mohamed was not allowed to speak to his parents.
The executive director of the Texas chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said that answer is not good enough.
“Once they’re being questioned, they have a right to refuse answering,” Terri Burke told The Daily Beast. “And, unless it’s something like a traffic violation, [police] immediately need to release the child to their parents.”
questioned at school before hand cuff or police station
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“They interrogated me and searched through my stuff and took my tablet and my invention,” the teen said. “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’ I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.”
But his questioner responded, “It looks like a movie bomb to me.”
Mohamed said that he was taken to police headquarters, handcuffed and fingerprinted.<<
So how many different ways has he told the story?
