The family of Ahmed “clock boy” Mohamed, the fourteen year old student who arrested his bring a homemade clock to school (that happened to look like a bomb), is demanding a written apology and $15 million from the city of Irving, TX, and it’s independent school district.
The demands are supposed to be “compensation” for disregarding his rights and permanently “damaging” the family’s reputation. The letter, which was written by the family’s lawyer stated that Ahmed’s reputation in the global community is permanently scarred.
It would seem that Mohamed family has different meanings for the words like “damaging” and “scarred” than what’s written in the dictionary. Since Ahmed’s clock situation, the family has become international celebrities.
Ahmed has dined with President Obama, hugged a ruthless dictator and was offered a full scholarship in Qatar.
It sounds like this clock business worked out exactly how he wanted it to. The letter also claimed that arrest was racially motivated, well, what did the parents think was going to happen?
Read more about this letter on the next page.
Charles Anderson November 23, 2015 Page 2 on this matter is that the City of Irving has actual notice of Ahmed’s injuries, and that under CPRC §101.101(c), additional, formal notice is unnecessary. City of Irving internal emails demonstrate that the City of Irving has actual notice of the claims and that Ahmed has been damaged by the events at issue. Furthermore, nothing in this letter should be construed as an election of remedies under the Tort Claims Act. In an abundance of caution, however, please accept this as Notice under CPRC §101.101(a) and Irving City Charter ART. III §8 of the injuries and damages sustained by Ahmed Mohamed and his family as a result of the violations of Ahmed’s rights by the City of Irving and its employees, acting in concert and participation with the Irving ISD and its employees. Further, these notice requirements relate only to Irving ISD as a “governmental unit.” No such notice is required with respect to the individuals involved, who also will be defendants if resolution is not reached. This is notice of the claims against the individuals, as well. The Incident Ahmed Mohamed is a fourteen year-old American citizen of Sudanese origin – just like his parents. It is well-known by Ahmed’s fellow students and his teachers that he is an electronics enthusiast. When he was at Sam Houston Middle School, Ahmed participated quite successfully in a robotics team competition. In his room at his Irving home, Ahmed has tons of gadgets and the soldering and assembly tools necessary to work with them. As a freshman who was new to MacArthur High School, Ahmed was looking for a way to demonstrate his technical abilities to some of his new teachers. The Friday before the incident, Ahmed told some of his teachers – including both Mr. Kelton Lemons (whom Ahmed calls his “engineering teacher”) and Ms. Erin West (his English teacher) – that he was going to build something over the weekend to show them and bring it for them to see on Monday. This very much comports with Ahmed’s personality. He loves what we used to call “show and tell” – bringing a unique or interesting item to school and showing it to his friends and teachers as a conversation piece. Ahmed did this sort of things many times at Sam Houston. Sunday night, Ahmed used some spare parts and scrap pieces he had around the house to assemble a digital clock. He routed the circuitry to run through a motherboard and enclosed his creative contraption in a little locking pencil case with the dimensions of approximately 8.5 x 5.75 x 2.5 inches. These Vaultz brand lockable cases are advertised by Target, Walgreen’s, CVS and other major retailers as “school supplies.” They come in numerous decorative colors and themes. Some are pink with big hearts on the front of them; some are “tie dye” pattern with a peace sign. Ahmed’s had a tiger hologram on the front of it. September 14, 2015 On Monday, September 14, 2015, Ahmed took the clock to school. Early in the school day, Ahmed showed the clock to Mr. Lemons. When Mr. Lemons saw the clock, he told Ahmed, “That’s really nice,” but Mr. Lemons also advised Ahmed to keep the clock in his backpack for the remainder of the school day. During Ahmed’s English class in the late
I have an idea, deport the family instead
Notice of Claims and Demand regarding the detention, interrogation, arrest, and public mistreatment of Ahmed Mohamed by Mayor Beth Van Duyne, Chief of Police Larry Boyd, and numerous other City of Irving officials Dear Mr. Anderson: Our firm has been retained by Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed to represent his son, Ahmed Mohamed. As you know, until a short time ago, Ahmed was a student at MacArthur High School in the Irving ISD and a resident of the City of Irving. For personal security reasons, Ahmed and family are in Doha, Qatar. However, when they feel safe again, all of them want more than anything to come home, to Irving, Texas. The primary purpose of this letter is to provide the City of Irving with formal notice regarding the events of September 14, 2015, involving Ahmed, in which several Irving Police personnel, acting in league with numerous others, deliberately disregarded and violated Ahmed’s rights under 42 U.S.C. §1983, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Texas Juvenile Justice Code, Irving ISD’s policies and procedures, and Texas tort law. Our firm was only retained by this family a short time ago. Please do not take the list of rights violations in this letter as exhaustive of the possible causes of action which may be relevant on these facts. Please accept this notice as an expression of our intent to pursue all litigation necessary to achieve a full vindication of all of Ahmed’s and his family’s rights. Statutory Notices Chapter 101 of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code (“CPRC”) – the Tort Claims Act – requires that certain notices issue in relation to some of these claims. Our primary position
chance of money
Ummm…. NO!
He should he lashed for every dollar he is trying to scam out of people
And the 15M will go to fund ISIS I am sure.
I demand Texas sue him along with his entire family for fraud !!!!
I think we ought to send this kid a REAL clock that looks like a bomb, only it’s really a CLOCK with a BOMB attached!!
Don’t give him anything