"Damn! They never thought he had a bomb!"

[Old Crow]

54. Oh my gosh.

Now a couple of you seem to be arguing that unless I can prove the police handled the situation perfectly, then the logic of the Facebook post stands.

I don't think they handled the situation correctly. I think they mishandled it horribly. Ahmed Mohamed should have been apologized to and returned to class once it became clear that this student had not built the "infrastructure for a bomb."

Allow me now to turn the question back to you folks:

You seriously believe that the teacher and the police never thought there was cause for concern about the device? You believe that they all knew it was a harmless clock and acted only so that they could, in the words of the Facebook post, "humiliate a little Muslim boy"?

I think truth and reality often come in shades of grey. I think the teacher and the police were genuinely alarmed when they first saw the device. I think the investigation then went off the rails because of anti-Muslim prejudice and an unwillingness to admit error. I do not, for one minute, buy what the Facebook post posits, namely, that they either believed it was a bomb that was about to blow everyone up at any second OR they never believed there was any cause for concern and their only motivation was to humiliate.