Dumbass Americans arrest ninth grader for being called Ahmed and knowing how to build things.

Bork Laser said:
I'm trying to come up with something witty, or something to say at all but this is just so stupid. But it is Texas so I shouldn't be surprised.
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Well, knee jerk xenophobic American anti-intellectualism certainly isn't restricted to lousy teachers and ignorant cops in Texas. Should this poor kid continue to pursue a STEM career, he can reasonably anticipate more of the same, at higher levels and greater stakes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/u...t-professor-shared-technology-with-china.html
It was an embarrassing acknowledgment that prosecutors and F.B.I. agents did not understand — and did not do enough to learn — the science at the heart of the case before bringing charges that jeopardized Dr. Xi’s career and left the impression that he was spying for China.

“I don’t expect them to understand everything I do,” Dr. Xi, 57, said in a telephone interview. “But the fact that they don’t consult with experts and then charge me? Put my family through all this? Damage my reputation? They shouldn’t do this. This is not a joke. This is not a game.”
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I really feel sorry for this kid. I hope his parents sue the bollocks of everyone involved, either that or his story gets enough interest that a decent college offers him a STEM scholarship and he ends up making more money than everyone who tormented him put together. Fuck, in ninth grade (year nine) all I was good at was wood work. This kid is building fuckin' clocks, in twenty minutes, because he CAN. Remind me never to get a tan if I come to America, they might find a mini screwdriver on my keys and arrest me for trying to hack into the power grid or something.

EDIT. They've updated the story and are now saying that they won't charge him because it was clearly a "hoax bomb" and a "naive incident". Basically they won't acknowledge their mistake but they are gonna be generous enough not to charge the kid because he's just to dumb to realize that his toy bomb would be scary. They also go on to clarify that his skin color has nothing to do with it and generally when they feel the need to clarify that it's because there's too much evidence to the contrary to ignore. There's a reason people shoot American cops.
 
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Daily reminder that education majors are the dumbest of all college majors, with the lowest SAT scores.

Despite their shit-tier SAT scores, they leave with great GPA because of the pattycake grading.

Basically, education majors are fucking stupid. Too dumb to learn or teach.

The kid is lucky he didn't make a potato battery. These dimwits would have thought it was a grenade.
 
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Not for nothin' but that's a really big PCB for a clock. I'm sure he just wired an external display to the clock circuit that's already on that board, which is pretty interesting I guess, but his engineering teacher was totally right; I would have suggested that he not show that to anyone either. It's dramatic looking if you don't understand what you're looking at, and people are usually afraid of things they don't understand. It sucks that they're basically not admitting outright that they fucked up, but a lot of organizations who rely on the public trust are like that.

EDIT: Nevermind, I was looking at the first pic of him in his room with an unrelated project. The PCBs attached to the 7-segment display aren't as dramatic. How exactly did they think this was a bomb? Even if your only exposure to bombs is the movies, pretty much all of the movie bombs have timers that are wired to obvious explosive devices. That's obviously a timing device in an otherwise empty suitcase.
 
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MrTroll said:
He was temporarily detained, not arrested or charged with anything, while the police could verify that it wasn't a bomb. What's the big deal? Where's the grave injustice here?
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He got dragged out of school, humiliated, profiled, accused of terrorism and suspended from school. If he'd been white and called Brendon he'd have won some sort of science award.
 
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LazarusOwenhart said:
He got dragged out of school, humiliated, profiled, accused of terrorism and suspended from school. If he'd been white and called Brendon he'd have won some sort of science award.
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Bullshit. Give the race baiting a rest. Kids get suspended for all kinds of stupid harmless things in American public schools, regardless of race. If anything, this seems downright justifiable compared to some of these:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/04/us/ohio-boy-suspended-finger-gun/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/6-year-old-fingers-shape-of-gun-suspended_n_6813864.html

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media...iculous-Reasons-Children-Got-Suspended-School
 
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MrTroll said:
Bullshit. Give the race baiting a rest. Kids get suspended for all kinds of stupid harmless things in American public schools, regardless of race.
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Race skews things in the US. That's pretty well established. While there are efforts to reform things, those efforts vary in how effective they are. I doubt those efforts have been very effective with schoolteachers in Texas.
 
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Marvin said:
Race skews things in the US. That's pretty well established. While there are efforts to reform things, those efforts vary in how effective they are. I doubt those efforts have been very effective with schoolteachers in Texas.
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This isn't a situation where some black kid gets fucked over for having half an ounce of pot while most of his white classmates do the same thing and get away with it. Teachers are hyper-reactive to anything that could be construed as a physical threat these days, and in this particular situation I could honestly, legitimately see how an English teacher with no training or knowledge of electrical engineering would think that there's at least a small chance that this thing his student brought to school could be dangerous. The same thing that happened here could and would have happened anywhere in the country and to any kind of student.
 
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