The mayor of Irving, Beth Van Duyne, claims that it wasn’t the clock that got Ahmed Mohamed arrested. It was his failure to comply with police officers, which is the reason new reports are coming in that the entire thing was a publicity stunt. If that’s the case, it certainly worked.
Speaking to Rawstory, Wester said: ‘I think his intent was to see how far he could get with the device and to see what kind of alarmant he could get.
‘And as you can see now, he’s got what he asked for. He’s gotten that alarmant. He’s gotten that excitement or whatever he was trying to get. He got it.’
An Image of a handcuffed Ahmed being escorted out of MacArthur High School, in Irving, went viral after teachers claimed the device ‘looked-like a bomb’.
Mayor Duyne, who previously made headlines for voicing her fears that Islamic Sharia law was coming to Dallas, said Ahmed’s family had not responded to the city’s request to have records of the incident released.
The teenager was arrested two weeks ago after he used old circuit boards and wires to create a digital clock and brought it into MacArthur High School to show his engineering teacher.
If you look at Ahmed Mohamed’s life since the clock incident, you’ll see that he’s skyrocketed to a level of psuedo-fame that most fourteen year olds only dream of. This is why the idea that it was a publicity stunt isn’t exactly a shocking one.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
