Purely out of curiosity...

[Mark Thibodeau]

I think a more pertinent question might be, please cite where it's illegal
for police to detain and question 14 year olds.

The teachers followed the rules, and the people who best know this kid --
the teachers who work with him on a daily basis (you know... teachers?
those underpaid heroes we love so much? the same people some of you are now
willing to throw under the bus because it suits your OMGRACISM worldview?)
thought his behavior merited action.

Before I bring you guys the most complete narrative I can put together of
what happened (based on mainstream news sources), HERE is a video showing
what it took to "invent" the clock that he "invented"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIzQjS6tn4w
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:45 PM, <rbollinger at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Please cite your statute governing reassembled clock parts...
>
>
> Rob Bollinger
> Austin TX
>
> ---- ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Was the clock a school project? In other words, did a teacher, a club
> > adviser, any adult in the school assign a project, and did the clock fit
> > the assignment? Or did the young man make a clock and bring it to school?
> >
> > As far as I can tell the young man did not build a clock or make a
> project,
> > or in any way bring something to school that was part of an assignment
> from
> > any adult in the building. It was not a project. It was not show and
> tell.
> > It seems the student took apart a clock, re-fashioned it and put in in a
> > box and brought it to school.
> >
> > Why did he do this? What was his motivation?
> >
> > Whatever his intentions, if he re-assembled clock parts in a box and took
> > them to school, he broke the law. While 14 year old boys, and sometimes
> 14
> > year old girls, are instructed that bringing a clock in a box, a plastic
> > gun, a plastic sword, a paper bomb or dynamite  etc..., even on Halloween
> > is dangerous and against the law, young people do make these kinds of
> > mistakes, from time to time. Best if they make them in school as school
> is
> > the safest place in the world for students. Obviously, doing so in the
> > street may get one killed by a police officer or even a gun toting
> citizen.
> > In a school the child, age 14, will be interrogated, handcuffed,
> probably,
> > and asked to write a statement explaining his or her intentions and the
> > police will contact the guardians and book the kid. This is the law. It
> > matters not the race or religion of the child.
> >
> > From time to time, a  brave administrator, more likely an experienced
> > teacher will protect the child with a slap on the wrist, but the current
> > mood in the country and in schools is making this a rare act of....welll
> > not courage, but decency.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:02 AM, The Jonathon Hunt Experience <
> > newtalkingwall at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is there any evidence that the kid "only" took apart a store bought
> clock
> > > and put it back together, beyond people online pointing out that doing
> so
> > > is a thing that people can do? Beyond that, if the child acted as
> > > maliciously as Richard Dawkins and others would like to believe, this
> means
> > > his whole plan hinged on the knowledge that his teachers and police
> would
> > > confuse a circuit board and some wires with something that can
> explode. If
> > > our teachers and police are this stupid (which seems to be the case,
> here),
> > > then we are lucky in getting off with a $15 million dollar fine.
> > >
>
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