14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Clock]

[Catholic_Lady]

Ok, I'm chiming in only because I'm very confused....this case does not appear to be nearly as clear cut as some people seem to want to make it.

So, it clearly was not a bomb.  But not everyone is going to know much about electronics.  An English teacher was the one who eventually got him in trouble
The kid had it, showed it off for hours around school for hours, so this was not a case of zero tolerance, or of people immediately assuming the little brown boy had a bomb.
The teacher did not get comlience, and I'm sorry but she has the right to send a non-compliant student to the principal.

At this point, it looks to me like the kid was looking for a reaction, and didn't get it until he got to English class.  That's normal for teens, true.  But it's also normal for a teen pushing a teacher to get sent to the principal.  So, at this point in the story, I don't think anyone has done anything "wrong".

Here is where it gets murky.  So the principal calls the police, and it is the police that overreact??  I mean, honestly, I don't know what a bomb might or might not look like either, and if it's true the kid was not responding to his teachers, then I can understand some fear.  Obvisouly the did not OVER react and evacuate the school or anything.  So I don't undertand why the teachers are taking so much heat.

Now, everything that happens once the cops are called is messed up and wrong, and should not have happened to the kid, but how it GOT there, I can totally see how that happened. And the teachers did nothing wrong that I can tell from any version of the story. And hey, I'm normally the one bashing public schools, so...

I watched that video CL posted.  Id on't agree with all of it, but there are some good points.  The best point was how people pick sides before the know the whole story.  That drive me totally nuts.  This is not a clear cut issue of racism or Islamaphobia, or white privilge or even of police brutality.

Personally, a part of me wonders if that very smart boy didn't know damn well what he was doing, and kept showing it off to teachers until he got the reaction he was looking for. He's effing lucky the stupid police didn't shoot him in the head or some horrible thing.  
And now....he will be rewarded (quite largly rewarded, I might add) for disobeying his teacher, because the police were dicks.  Jeeze, this is a very complicated issue.

The info that came out later, Aurora, was that the police never thought it was a bomb. They thought it was a hoax bomb, which is also a serious offense. They took him to the station for further questioning because he was not being very forthcoming. What exactly happened at the police station, is not known. The kid said the police unfairly commented about his race and mistreated him. Is he telling the truth? Is he exaggerating a little bit? He's a 14 year old kid. Who knows. 

I agree though. The way this story was being presented was that bigoted teachers had this little Muslim kid arrested because they assumed his clock was a bomb. But yet there's more to the story than that. Let's try to be objective and not automatically pick the hero and the villain without having all the details and knowing the whole story.