Bomb Hoax Research Paper

A bomb hoax is typically defined as conveying to authorities that there is bomb threat but, in reality there is not. On September 14, Ahmed Mohamed, a freshmen attending McArthur high school in Irving, Texas, brought a rebuilt clock in a metal pencil box to school and later got arrested on suspicion of carrying a bomb. Never did he once say anything about having a bomb. So was this incident triggered by a hatred for different races or did the school react properly? On Monday September 14 Ahmed Mohamed was eager to get to school and impress all of his teachers with his new invention, a clock that he pieced together the previous night. As his father drove him to school he encouraged his son to show some of his teachers. He walked into his school like any normal day, passing all of the security checkpoints without a problem. In his morning engineering class he showed his teacher his homemade clock. The teacher responded with “ That’s really nice, but keep it your backpack and don't show anyone.” In his english class, he plugged it in and set up the time, causing the clock to beep. …show more content…
Twenty-nine members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to the Attorney General asking for an investigation into "the civil rights violations that took place during the unjust arrest of Ahmed Mohamed." The letter stated that "Ahmed was denied his civil rights on numerous occasions as he was consistently refused his right to speak with his father. Texas Family Code clearly states 'a child may not be left unattended in a juvenile processing office and is entitled to be accompanied by the child's parent, guardian, or other custodian or by the child's attorney.' (Section 52.025)" These allegations of police behavior have been proven true; the police either wouldn’t let a young, scared freshman student see his family or were keeping a suspected terrorist away from possible