When
Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was
so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to
show his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil case.
The 14-year-old's day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was arrested.
"I
built a clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she
thought it was a threat to her," Ahmed told reporters Wednesday. "It was
really sad that she took the wrong impression of it."
Ahmed
talked to the media gathered on his front yard and appeared to wear the
same NASA T-shirt he had on in a picture taken as he was being
arrested. In the image, he looks confused and upset as he's being led
out of school in handcuffs.
"They arrested me and they told me that I committed the crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb," the freshman later explained to WFAA after authorities released him.
