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

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100. DUZY!

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Bigotry or incompetence above and beyond the call of duty? Now they'll have to pick one...

RawStory: (MSNBC's Chris) Hayes pointed out that, despite the allegations against the teen, no bomb squad was called to the MacArthur campus, nor was the campus evacuated. “Once it’s determined that this is just a clock or just a piece of electronics, why then the arrest and all of that?” he asked (Irving Police Chief Larry) Boyd. “That’s very hard for folks to understand.”

“I get that. I understand the concern,” the chief responded. “The officers pretty quickly determined that they weren’t investigating an explosive device. What their investigation centered around is the law violation of bringing a device into a facility like that that is intended to create a level of alarm. In other words, a hoax bomb — something that is not really a bomb, but is designed and presented in a way that it creates people to be afraid.”

“Right, but he never called it a bomb, right?” Hayes countered. “He just kept calling it a clock. I mean, it never came out of his lips, he never did something or started showing it around saying, ‘Look at this bomb I have.’ He said, ‘Look at my clock.'” Boyd said...that in many cases, someone who would make a “hoax bomb” would not be likely to admit to doing so to police...“With what they had at that time, they made the best decision that they had at that point in time.”

If the police had decided that it was neither a bomb or a detonator, the best decision would have been to explain to the boy that he had nearly perpetrated a bomb hoax and gone home.


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