If the lawsuit is successful, the money will come right out of public school funding.

Isn’t he supposed to ask for a lawyer?

Ahmed said that one policeman made a (bigoted) comment “Yeah, that’s who I thought it was.”

1. They never said Ahmed had a bomb. Ahmed was arrested for being in possession of a “hoax bomb”, a device purposefully created to cause false alarm.

The masses turned on him because they realized they had been duped.

Ahmed was arrested for creating a “hoax bomb”. Under Texas law, it is illegal to possess a “hoax bomb” with an intent to “make another believe that the hoax bomb is an explosive or incendiary device” or to “cause [an] alarm or reaction of any type by an official of a public safety agency or volunteer agency organized…

No one at any point thought Ahmed had a bomb. He was arrested for creating a possible hoax. He had brought a disemboweled alarm clock inside a pencil box (that he in his own words “tied with a cord so that it wouldn’t seem suspicious”) to school, plugged it into a wall socket before class, which went off and…