Ah, but they’re real guns, not hoax guns.

I wonder how far they would get in that street if they were a bit more tanned and had “Mohamed” as their last name? 😕

and this is what one of the first Apple computers looked like

No implication that the Texas Police and School authority acted inappropriately or rashly based on a students skins colour. No sir, not at all 🙄

I mean, it’s not like you can buy a gun in the supermarket or anything

White – Genius! Well done lad.
Black – Where d’yu steal that from boy?
Beige – See above.

God bless America.

The difference between a white man carrying a gun and a black man.
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvW_zBvJlsA[/video]

I’m not sure if the difference in response is more depressing than the fact that response to the white guy would ever been deemed appropriate!

The cop in the first video, with the white guys, is awesome. The dudes must have been gutted not to be oppressed. It’d be like wearing a helmet cam and having all the drivers be polite and courteous.

It’s a minor quibble but the white guy has the AR slung behind is back. The black guy has it at his side in a much more “ready to fire” position.

I’d have had a lot more respect for the experiment if they had at least tried to keep other factors as identical as possible (same carry, same clothes, same neighbourhood, same responses etc).

But yeah I’m with convert on this, to my British eyes the fact that anyone can just walk about town with an assault rifle for no good reason is bizarre.

All this reminds me that while the UK is far from perfect, it certainly doesn’t have the same ingrained racial divide the the U.S. has. Thankfully.

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meanwhile over in the UK a 13 year old schoolboy builds his own nuclear fission reactor, gets given a grant for it and rightfully receives worldwide acclaim for it…only in America will they be this stupid!

Hey hey hey, american kids have been building nuclear reactors in their sheds since the 70’s (there have been a few others since then too).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF-VFn7hnEk[/video]

This sums it up for me.

They never thought he had a bomb.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMX6940QnMY[/video]

The cop in the first video, with the white guys, is awesome.

I’m not convinced this is as presented. I’m 99% sure I’ve seen “test 1” before, if it’s the one I think it is I’ve seen the full video, the cop goes on to invite him to their gun club to learn how to use it properly. It’s at least a year old.

Yep, same video. But what’s wrong with that? He engages the ever-so-slightly-nuts guys and a) disabuses them of their notion that they’re Fighting The Power And Defending Their Constitutional Rights From The Man, and then b) gives them advice on how they can open carry, if they must, in a less intimidating and safer way.

It’d be better if he could chase them off the streets entirely, but that’s not the situation, he can only enforce the law.

Point was, it was presented as two successive tests, as though the only difference was skin colour. But that wasn’t the motive of the original video, it’s a compilation so could’ve been filmed at different times in different places. Ie, there may be a whole load of other variables that we’re not aware of. Not that I’m defending the police behaviour, rather I just think the presentation may be misleading.

Anyway, that’s not why I’m here. I came across this just now:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/20/richard-dawkins-questions-ahmed-mohamed-motive-backlash

Shouty godbotherer-botherer aside, there’s an interesting turn of events here. Seems meladdo’s home electronics project was nothing of the sort, rather it was (allegedly) a commercial alarm clock which he’d taken to bits and packed into a case.

Suddenly the “what’s it for” question seems a whole lot more relevant if it’s not something he proudly took in to show his teachers (unless he was trying to gain false credit I suppose). It’s starting to smell like he intentionally wanted to look as suspicious as possible in order to, I don’t know, prove a point about perceived or actual racism perhaps, and ended up with a whole lot more attention than he probably bargained for.

Maybe.

Linked from that article, an analysis of his device.

http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/

Shouty godbotherer-botherer aside, there’s an interesting turn of events here. Seems meladdo’s home electronics project was nothing of the sort, rather it was (allegedly) a commercial alarm clock which he’d taken to bits and packed into a case.

Pretty sure that information was in all the news reports I read about the situation as it first emerged.

If it was, I missed it. But then, I tend not to read news reports and rely on you lot to tell me what to think.

His dad is quite a character too:

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9339063/ahmed-mohamed-elhassan

His dad is quite a character too:

He sounds great!

This is the country where they charge a 17 year old as an adult sex offender for having pornographic images of a minor on their phone, even though it is of himself taken by him when he was 16.

In another story an 11 year old is charged with bringing ‘fake’ drugs to school when leaf found in his bag turns out not to be drugs.

Madness.