Scientists are outraged a 14-year-old student was arrested for building a clock
Since then, he's received a huge outpouring of support from the science community on Twitter under the hashtag #IStandWithAhmed.
Ahmed has been interested in science and tech for a long time, so when he started high school this year, he wanted to show off his skills by bringing in a simple digital clock he built at home in about 20 minutes.
But a teacher took one look at the wires and circuit board, and jumped to conclusions.
"She was like, it looks like a bomb," Ahmed told the Dallas Morning News.
The school called the authorities, Ahmed was led off in handcuffs to juvenile detention under suspicion of creating a "hoax bomb." The case has just recently been dropped and closed, according to NBC5's Ken Kalthoff, who was at an Irving Police Department press conference.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations is conducting its own investigation as to whether this is a case of Islamophobia.
Scientists are completely outraged over this. Here's a roundup of some of the best tweets we found: