'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed's family suing Texas city

Remember Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy whose homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb, causing his arrest?

Well, his family filed a lawsuit against school officials and others in Texas Monday, saying the incident violated his civil rights, prompted death threats and forced them to leave the United States. 

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Mohamed was arrested at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, last September after bringing the clock — which was made out of a plastic pencil box and hardware salvaged from his parents' garage — in to show his English teacher. Read more...

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