#IStandWithAhmed: Obama joins supporters rallying around Texas teen
by Elena Cresci in London and Jana Kasperkevic in New from Technology | The Guardian on (#MNB4)
'Cool clock, Ahmed' tweets president as Mark Zuckerberg also joins outpouring of support for student arrested Monday for bringing homemade clock to school
School officials in Texas are standing by their decision to detain Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school, but the 14-year-old old has found some incredibly high-profile supporters, including the US president and the chief executive of Facebook.
Ahmed, from Irving, Texas, left school in handcuffs on Monday after his English teacher told him and the school's principal that his homemade clock looked like a bomb.
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