Mark Zuckerberg Invites Ahmed to Facebook HQ

I'm a bit crestfallen to read this.

My initial reaction to hearing influential people were standing up for this kid was one of happiness but I can totally see the "hoax bomb" narrative getting extended to the President by some of the people I interact with here [edit: here where I am standing, not here on HN]: "Did you hear that this kid made a hoax bomb and took it to school and Obama invited him to the White House as a reward???"

On the bright side, maybe the anti-Obama knee jerk will be counteracted by the outrage "girl chewed PopTart into shape of gun, got suspended" stories tend to generate around here.

Why would they charge him with creating a hoax? The teachers that cried bomb threats should be penalized, not the student.

Am I missing something here? It's starting to look like he is the victim of a conspiracy where the administration and local PD trumped up the charges, I wouldn't be surprised if the state attorney general would've loved to have sunk his teeth in too.

This whole situation is as much about blatant racism and fear mongering as it is about the viciousness of state-backed prosecutorial adventurism.

A source I read earlier said that he also would not be charged with "intent to cause alarm". Although the clock did have an alarm function (it beeped in class and the teacher that reported him commented on it). You can't make this stuff up.