Obama Tweets Kid Who Built Clock And Was Detained Because Cops Thought It Was A Bomb

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Well, this ended nicely.
A 14-year old with a love of robotics and engineering has received a wave of well-wishes following his detainment over his homemade clock that he took to his Irving, Texas school on Monday. The clock was thought to be a bomb. It wasn’t.
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Ahmed Mohamed will not face any charges according to police. Probably because it’s not illeagal to take a clock to school.
The social media outpouring ranged from President Obama and Hillary Clinton to NASA engineers.