With #IStandWithAhmed, Internet Supports Wrongly Arrested Teenage Inventor
twitter.com/AnilDash Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was arrested by Texas police after his homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb Any 14-year-old would be proud if they built a functioning electronic device, and so on Tuesday, Ahmed Mohamed of Irving, TX, brought the clock he built to school to show his engineering teacher. However, another teacher alerted school authorities, who called the police, after seeing the clock and believing it to be a bomb. Ahmed was led out out of the school in handcuffs and placed in juvenile detention and, according to the Dallas Morning News, his family fears he was arrested for being a Muslim. The Internet has responded strongly to Mohamed's arrest with #IStandWithAhmed, a grassroots online campaign where people can show the young inventor their support. It's garnered the attention of scientists: Actors: Politicians: And even...