Ahmed Mohamed, the young Muslim boy who has risen into popularity after being handcuffed when he brought a homemade clock to his high school, 'got what he asked for', according to local officials, according to DailyMail.
Mayor Beth Van Duyne of Irving, Texas, said that Mohamed was detained because he failed to follow orders of the police officers.
"In my own conversations with the police is that he was not forthcoming with information, but I just think common sense prevails," Van Duyne said, according to Fox 4 KDFW. "Does it make sense? And if not, why?"
The mayor said that according to the accounts of the police and the officials of the school, Mohamed responded evasively. The police records of Mohamed remain sealed.
"The family has been non-responsive to their requests to sign off that they can release that information," Van Duyne added. "So right now, we're waiting to hear back from the parents that we can release that information and have transparency out in the public."
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Van Duyne highlighted that the focus of the attention should not be on her.
"The fact that I'm getting any kind of attention for doing this is scary," she said, according to Raw Story. "Why am I not one of many who when I see something, I say something? Why are we not all holding all of our elected officials accountable for saying the things that we're all thinking?"
The president of the Texas Municipal Patrolman's Association, Heath Wester, said that Mohamed possibly brought the device to the school as a publicity stunt.
"I think his intent was to see how far he could get with the device and to see what kind of alarmant he could get," Wester said, Rawstory added. "And as you can see now, he's got what he asked for. He's gotten that alarmant. He's gotten that excitement or whatever he was trying to get. He got it."
