That would be speculative.

What false grounds, Matt? Even in a state of thoroughly idiotic over reaction, the school district and the city thought with reason that they were doing the right thing. There was no malice or conspiracy to deprive our young clock stuffer his rights. He was told by his “engineering” teacher not to display that reconfigured clock. He displayed it anyway, and was arrested for his troubles because it did look too much like a bomb to the untrained eye of a teacher. Yes, the cops do know something of what to look for, but they could hold him on charges of disturbing the peace, never mind modelling an explosive device. So, what false grounds?

So you have untrained school staff making judgement calls on a device that resembles many of those shown on TV shows as a bomb, a child with a history of crying wolf on Muslimism and Ft Hood isn’t that far away or that long ago.

What would you do if you were in charge of the safety of hundreds of high school age children.

What would you want the school staff to do if your child was one of those hundreds.

Crikey, all of a sudden that shoe seems kind of thight…

In an interview with the kid, he says that he knew the device might look suspicious so he tied a cable around it. Why would he say such a thing unless he knew how the clock would appear?

Source of the interview: https://youtu.be/3mW4w0Y1OXE

The engineering teacher knew it was a clock. Others did not. The officials determined that it was not a bomb after he was taken to the office – not before.

Being that the kid was told to put the clock in his locker by the engineering teacher and not take it out the rest of the day because of its looks, why would the kid continue to carry it around to other classes?

As to whether the cops are telling the truth, as I said that will most likely come out when the school administration can release its information and investigation. Right now they are limited by privacy laws which, in case you missed it, the family refused to wave while the story was in the news. Why would they do that other than to prevent another side or the truth from coming out?

Cops do lie. We know the kid lied. Do you have any proof that these particular cops lied?

“That’s nothing unique to this case”

If it was unique, this blog would have less to talk about, that’s for sure.

“The kid brought something into the school that looked like an explosive device. He was told by a teacher to put the thing away in his locker.”

Bull. Officials from the school have admitted that they knew it was only a clock, and that all the teachers involved knew it was only a clock.

“The police claim he became combative so they talked to him so they handcuffed him.”

Cops lie.

Well, that’s true, but our entire legal system is rife with over-inflated awards for “pain & suffering” / “emotional anguish”.

That’s nothing unique to this case, particularly against a government defendant.

What false grounds?

The kid brought something into the school that looked like an explosive device. He was told by a teacher to put the thing away in his locker.

He didn’t.

Instead he went to another class where the thing went off, scaring the teacher and the students.

In Texas, that is a crime.

The police claim he became combative so they talked to him so they handcuffed him. Whether that is true or not will come out because we don’t have the school’s complete side of this because the law doesn’t allow them to speak on it.

We do know the kid lied to the police and to school officials. We do know that his sister had apparently gotten into similar trouble at the school. We do know that the family lawyered up and media-upped the same day, which seems to indicate that this was more of a planned incident than anything.

In days of old, the kiid would have gone home where the parents would have said “you did what?” and proceed to ground the kid.

This kid and his family want money for his actions.

Injuries, sure. Million of dollars of injuries, no. Even if you assume that his reputation was damaged so badly that nobody will hire him ever, that’s still doesn’t rise to $15 million.