Thousands show support for young scientist in #IStandWithAhmed

It began with a clock. 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, brought a homemade clock that he’d built that weekend to school on Tuesday. According to The Washington Post, Mohamed was known for his handiwork around electronics and built radios in his spare time. He brought the clock to show to his teachers, whom he’d just met weeks ago as a new student. He ended up in handcuffs, a result of his English teacher confiscating the clock that “looked like a bomb.” He was interrogated by five police officers, who tried to coerce him into saying…
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