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Premium Link UpgradeHost Chris Hayes on MSNBC gave Chief Boyd the opportunity to admit the officers' mistake and appoligize to Ahmed. But, instead the chief decided to defend the arrest, saying "The officers made the decision they did with the information they had with what they thought was right at the time. We are clearly going to review this. We want to always look at ways we can enhance and have a better outcome. There’s a lot of decision points, there’s a lot of alternatives that they have available to them."
"Once it’s determined that this is just a clock or just a piece of electronics, why then the arrest and all of that?" the MSNBC host asked Boyd. "That’s very hard for folks to understand."
"I get that. I understand the concern," Boyd acknowledged. "The officers pretty quickly determined that they weren’t investigating an explosive device. What their investigation centered around is the law ********* of bringing a device into a facility like that that is intended to create a level of alarm. In other words, a hoax bomb — something that is not really a bomb, but is designed and presented in a way that it creates people to be afraid."
"Right, but he never called it a bomb, right?" Hayes returned. "He just kept calling it a clock. I mean, it never came out of his lips, he never did something or started showing it around saying, ‘Look at this bomb I have.’ He said, ‘Look at my clock.’"
"There definitely was some confusion and some level of information that didn’t come out immediately," Boyd defended. "With what they had at that time, they made the best decision that they had at that point in time," he continued.
No bomb squad was ever called to the MacArthur High School campus, nor did the police ever consider evacuating the campus. So, just how much did racism by the police play a part in the arrest? For me the answer seems obvious.
You forgot a large part of the story, not mentioned in that article:
The cops knew it wasn't a bomb after seeing it, they still put a 14 year old in cuffs.
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... The *** is at least an idiot and certainly not a genius ...
At first, based on the original stories, I also thought that he was being victimized.
But once I saw the actual "clock", my feeling was that [NOBABE]the ***[/NOBABE] was (how do the Brits put it?) taking a ****. I think he meant for it to be misidentified as a bomb.
The police overreacted. Yet the device did look like something Ethan Hunt would lob out of a helicopter at the last minute in “Mission: Impossible.” As National Review’s Charles Cooke pointed out on Twitter, the scary-looking tangle of wires “looks a lot more like a bomb than a [nobabe]pop tart[/nobabe] looks like a ***.”
Josh Welch, a white Maryland *** with ADHD who was 7 years old when he was kicked out of school for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a ****** and pretending to shoot other students with it, must be puzzled.
walk in front of the White House carrying that exact same device and see how quick you are having a chat with the U.S. Secret Service and FBI. I am comforted that in the last 12 months a whole lot less people are buying into liberal spin and bullshit like is in this post.I'm taking it many of the commentators here don't have a background in electronics? If we are arresting **** for that we may as well arrest every single *** that shows up at school with a cell phone and backpack.
Cell phone = remote ignition to a detonator
backpack = lots of explosives plus detonator
locker = great place to stash backpack
Trust me getting a charge from a cell when it rings to set off a detonator is easy pickings for anyone who has ever held a soldering iron.
The clock he assembled is no different then the stuff I used to make with printed circuit boards, soldering iron, and an erector set when I was a ***. You might as well check the janitors closet and see if it has Ajax, and Clorox. If so arrest him for having the ingredients for a poor mans chlorine gas.
There is an LED, data ribbon, 9 volt battery connector, printed circuit board, and the top part of a clock for the buttons. All in a box the size of pencil box, compare to the electrical plug on the right in the photo for size. Where the hell are the explosives? Have we actually reached the level of fear and stupidity to be terrified of what is obviously a crappy clock in a pencil box? If so we are doomed as a nation, the Chinese may as well take all the high paying jobs.
The boy is no genius, but he sure isn't a terrorist.
Texas was the wrong place to pull a stunt like that, intent will be hard to prove but there's really no question in my mind what the little feller was up to.
walk in front of the White House carrying that exact same device and see how quick you are having a chat with the U.S. Secret Service and FBI. I am comforted that in the last 12 months a whole lot less people are buying into liberal spin and bullshit like is in this post.
Would he have gotten in trouble if he wasn't a Moon Jew or if it featured components made of Pop Tarts?