the Texas Police have arrested a 14-year-old Ahmed Mohammed, after the student brought to school a homemade clock. The device is a boy who is interested in engineering and robotics, gathered himself on the instructions of the teacher. The teacher asked him not to show the hours before his lesson, and because young American wore them in the bag.

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the Texas Police have arrested a 14-year-old Ahmed Mohammed, after the student brought to school a homemade clock. The device is a boy who is interested in engineering and robotics, gathered himself on the instructions of the teacher. The teacher asked him not to show the hours before his lesson, and because young American wore them in the bag.

At unusual hours, drew the attention of the English teacher, who had heard triggered the alarm. The art project was an electronic Board with digital display and connected to it by wires to the power source. All this was housed in a small case with a holographic sticker. The teacher took the watch, and later the school administration called the police, reports The Verge.

Ahmed Mohammed was arrested and interrogated with participation of five officers. They asked why he had done and came to school with a bomb. A police spokesman said that, according to the boy, it's a clock, "however, the additional information is not provided". On the assumption of third parties that the watches are actually for hours, police said "If you leave them under the car, the watch can be mistaken for an explosive device".

the police report featured the testimony of three teachers who took the device for a pipe bomb. The boy brought charges of making hoax explosive device. The father of a young engineer finds that the conflict broke out on the grounds of prejudice against the Muslims.

Ahmed Mohammed, who was interested in robotics, was allowed to go home, but to attend school in the next three days he was banned.