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Just what does the law say about this? Exactly?My understanding, and I have never defended a juvenile, is that the law allows the child to refuse to answer questions until a parent or lawyer is present. Parents can refuse to allow the child to answer questions. But just asking to call your parents does not mean that police cannot continue to ask questions and police definitely do not have to ask parents for permission to question a child.Did the kid get his phone call in a reasonable time? Was there any improper questioning? I don't know. Do you? I might be more concerned about those points if the kid were being charged with something.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I made the same condescending assumption. I also included the school administration in this assumption. On the other hand, there was at least one teacher at the school that knew better; the first teacher the clock was shown to. My first question is why this teacher did not speak up.I also wonder if anybody at the school even opened the case?

Not googling 'cartoon dynamite', no. But when I googled 'briefcase bomb', I found plenty that are more or less indistinct from Mohamed's toy.It's disingenuous to say the thing looks nothing like a bomb because there are plenty of rational people who could easily mistake it for just that. Middle school English teachers don't necessarily know that difference.You're drawing attention to a technical distinction that most people couldn't discern anyway. (I don't know what every type of explosive looks like.)Question:Why do you think Mohamed's Engineering teacher told him not to show his little toy to anyone?

I wasn't going to reply, but lest anyone believe I linked to a google search for "cartoon dynamite", I will.As you know, the link took you to a google bomb page that prominently featured time bombs; across the top, a sliding panel provided access to half a dozen other categories of bomb.Briefcase bombs indistinguishable from Ahmed's pencil case? Really? Which picture would that be? Because people like you staff the school administration.

You're being ridiculous. The link is there for everyone to check out and it has examples a plenty that resemble Mohamed's toy. What administration? We're talking about an English teacher.

Then I'll be ridiculously content for folks to check out whether the time bombs I linked to resemble Looney Tunes, and whether his pencil case resembles a briefcase. Won't you?And for you to ponder what an over-reactive administration might have to do with a teacher's advice.

Not only are they distinct, the only thing they have in common is wires and a rectangular shape.

Reference, please? There's always a possibility that the police acted correctly. But the possibility that they didn't act correctly requires a certain amount of proactive indignation.

Of course you know that all of us who googled "bomb" are going to be on somebody's Watch List now.

Lol! Actually, there was a pair of images that looked exactly like the student clock. Because they were pictures of the student clock.The vast majority of the pictures feature some prominent explosives. The ones that did not have explosives were not bombs either.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Your indignation accomplishes nothing. For that matter posting to EvC accomplishes nothing. What is required is demanding answers from the authorities about what happened and following up with an independent investigation.

Yes.God bless Amuhrica!

Don't be silly. Wasn't Martin Luther King indignant? What motivates the demand for answers if not indignation? If you're okay with what's happening, are you likely to demand answers?

http://www.khou.com/...king-shooting-at-gas-station/72923278

I take it, from the article referring to the shooter as a "witness", that the police have not even arrested him ?If so, I think I've worked out how to commit the perfect murder in Texas.