Look, I don’t know how to read your comment because tone is lost in comment sections. So I’ll just say my JD and bar card assure me I know how it all works. And I stand by my assertion that this is not how you negotiate a settlement. It’s a waste of time. I don’t fault them for using the media but I side eye the whole…

It 100% is. They knew exactly what the fuck they wanted to happen and sure as shit its what happened. Now they’re going to do everything they can to capitalize on it.

I hope you’re being sarcastic. The girls that were raped by Jared got like 100k a piece. This kid get wants 15 million for a few hours of visiting the police, visiting the president and a worldwide media tour? I don’t think we have the same definition of “mental anguish”.

if by changes you mean make things even more strict and standard, then yes.

OR... the officials believed it was a hoax bomb, which would explain why they did not evacuate the school

Yes, they are more sensible than Liberals as they can see this was a scam pushed by his activist father from the start.

Thank God for Texas!

I think we all knew that when they double down on the entire “made” a clock thing.

Just because no one believed it was a bomb does not mean it wasn’t intentionally designed to resemble one. And let’s stop pretending he created anything. He took something that was already a clock and stuck it inside a briefcase. Ahmed and his father can go fuck off.

Enough with the ‘made a clock’ bullshit. He put a digital clock that he bought into a briefcase to intentionally look like it could be an explosive device. No one was stupid enough to believe it was a bomb, or a home made clock for that matter.

1% of the school board’s budget? The school would have to lay off multiple people to do that. It’s a plaintiff lawyers tactic. “Cmon guys it’s just 1%.” So essentially you and many on here think that multiple people should be laid off because the school made a mistake which ended up with massive publicity for this…

Does everyone who is unnecessarily arrested deserve 15 million? I’m sure that when my brother got hauled in for cussing (and had to be picked up from teh police by me) as a 13 yr old he probably had his perspective on the cops set for life at that point. But after the charges got dropped, it didn’t occur to us to go…

They did move to Quatar.

That’s self-caused anguish. He wasn’t banned from going to another school in the district, or in America, and in fact received offers to get a great education for free from great institutions (even though what he did wasn’t in any way impressive for a kid his age who was interested in engineering — shit, by the same…

Especially the 41% Hispanic and 12% Black residents. Punish them bigots!

I’m sorry the point went over your head. I used ransom because of the strict timeline and the threat to do something unless they get what they want and using the media to draw attention to their cause to get that thing they want. Of course, that should have been obvious but you’re clearly feeling argumentative.

This. I would give my left nut for all the shit this kid got out of being questioned by the police for a few hours. He’s been rewarded enough already.

Well, the award isn’t intended to teach them a lesson. It’s intended to make the injured party whole again. The kid’s fine. In fact, the whole ordeal was probably a win after the white house trip and the offers of scholarships, etc. When you are on a jury making an award, it’s not about punishment. It’s about…

Physical and mental anguish? It thought he had offers from magnet schools across the country and that they were even moving to Qatar or somewhere to go to a special engineering school free of charge?

An attorney for the Mohamed family promised [to] take civil action if their money and apologies don’t show up within 60 days.