This is so sad.. I hate that America is becoming so islamophobic and muslim-paranoid.
I know Islam is responsible for a lot of violence, but with 1 billion muslims it's not fair to assume the worst in them.

This is very disturbing. I'm not sure it's limited to muslim's. In our increasingly paranoid culture a thing looking like a bomb may get anyone stopped and questioned. Arresting and interrogating him was way out of line.

I'm a little worried about a whole school district and a police force that can't tell the fucking difference between a clock and a bomb.

No wonder Texas is a red state.

I bet he won't have to worry about college loans, though it won't really make up for being suspected of being a bomb-maker.

Either the people in Texas are just so Islamic-phobic that they knew it wasn't a bomb and just got him in trouble for no good reason, or they were idiotic enough to contemplate evacuating the school while sitting in a room with the bomb.

The school wasn't evacuated.

(September 16, 2015 at 9:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I'm a little worried about a whole school district and a police force that can't tell the fucking difference between a clock and a bomb.

No wonder Texas is a red state.

What is most surprising about this is that the cops did not shoot him.  He isn't white, so why did they ignore precedent?

(September 16, 2015 at 9:34 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: This is very disturbing. I'm not sure it's limited to muslim's. In our increasingly paranoid culture a thing looking like a bomb may get anyone stopped and questioned. Arresting and interrogating him was way out of line.

It did not look like a bomb honestly.

Based on recent history, they should have been more afraid of a white kid who came to school with an unknown device.

Or do we just do guns?

(September 16, 2015 at 11:46 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Based on recent history, they should have been more afraid of a white kid who came to school with an unknown device.

Or do we just do guns?

I'm afraid of all teenagers with unknown devices! Teens are scary! But yes I agree, white kid doing something suspicious is a bit more on my radar.

I don't know how conversations went down. I was unfairly persecuted about computer "sabotage" my school IT guys thought I did. But I also would have thought it was funny to bring a bunch of electronics to my school and kind of lead people on with it as a practical joke. I think if a kid brings a hacked-together electronic device, and others don't know what it is, it needs to be left at home unless the kid tells someone he's bringing it in.