Texas schoolboy and his clock score Obama visit as authorities defend arrest
Texas schoolboy and his clock score Obama visit as authorities defend arrest ‘That is not America. That is not like us,’ says father of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, who will visit the White House next month for science fai A 14-year-old Texas boy who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school has accepted an invitation to visit the White House as school and city officials insisted they made the right decision when they handcuffed, interrogated and arrested him this week. Ahmed Mohamed, an engineering enthusiast, brought the clock to MacArthur high school in Irving, Texas, on Monday to show one of his teachers. Hours later, he was handcuffed and arrested by school resource officers as part of “standard procedure” after being summoned to a school office to explain the device. At a press conference outside his home on Wednesday, after his story swept across the internet and drew messages of support from tech companies and the president o...