Anger in America after police arrest Ahmed, 14, for bringing "bomb" to school

On Monday, police in the American city of Texas arrested 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, alleging that his homemade clock looked like a “hoax bomb.”

The picture of the teenager, Wednesday, went viral on social media with people alleging his “ridiculous” arrest is another case of racial profiling.

#IStandWithAhmed was trending on Twitter Wednesday morning.

Ahmed brought his project, a digital clock put together on a circuit board, to MacArthur High School, eager to impress his teachers.

His engineering teacher, who seemed impressed with the work, reportedly told him not to show other teachers.

He was probably apprehensive they could “freak out” and get Ahmed in trouble.

During English class, the clock’s alarm would not stop beeping.

“She was like, ‘it looks like a bomb’,” Ahmed described his English teacher’s reaction to the Dallas Morning News.

“I told her ‘it doesn’t look like a bomb to me.'”

The teacher confiscated the clock. The principal pulled him out of class in sixth period.

Ahmed said an officer who had never him before leaned back into his chair and said “Yup, that’s who I thought it was.”

Critics say the officer’s reaction smirked of racial profiling.

Mohamed was handcuffed and taken to a juvenile detention center.

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When he tried to call his father, he was told that he couldn’t talk to his parents until the interrogation was finished.

According to his family, Mohamed has been suspended from his school for three days.

Police say they may still charge him with making a hoax bomb.

“We had no information that he claimed it was a bomb,” police spokesperson James McLellan said.

“He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation,” he said.

The information in this article was sources from GrassWire.Com