IRVING, Tx — The case against a Texas teenager who was led out of his high school in handcuffs after his teachers mistook a homemade clock for a bomb has been closed.
Ahmed Mohamed is also getting some support from high-powered names in government and technology.
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Mohamed was removed Monday from MacArthur High School after he showed off an electronic clock to his first-period engineering teacher, KXAS reported.
The problem arose when the clock started to ring in his second-period class. He said he showed his teacher the invention after class, and she said it looked like a bomb and kept the clock.
Later in the day, the principal and a police officer removed Mohamed from class. He was questioned and his belongings were searched. Mohamed claims that the principal threatened to expel him if he didn't make a written statement, The Dallas Morning News reported.
>>Read the school district's statement
After his story went viral, police cleared Mohamed of any wrongdoing, closing the case and announcing that they were not pressing charges.
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But the decision did not come soon enough to prevent Pressident Barack Obama and other big names from hearing about his story.
A message of support was posted to Obama's Twitter account, inviting Mohamed and to bring his invention to the White House.
http://twitter.com/POTUS/status/644193755814342656
The president wasn't the only big name to throw his support behind Mohamed.
"The future belongs to people like Ahmed," Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said.
You’ve probably seen the story about Ahmed, the 14 year old student in Texas who built a clock and was arrested when he...
Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, September 16, 2015
The school's principal suspended Mohamed for three days, WFAA reported.
The Dallas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Mohamed was singled out because of his religious and racial identity, WFAA reported.
"I think this wouldn't even be a question if his name wasn't Ahmed Mohamed," Alia Salem of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said. "He is an excited kid who is very bright and wants to share it with his teachers."