Don’t let the “Feel-Good” ending of the Ahmed Mohamed story fool or distract you:  A minor was interrogated for hours and hours and repeatedly denied access to a lawyer or his parents by police when he asked. That is an actual crime.

mysharona1987:

I’m glad little Ahmed is going to space camp and will do well in his future. Good for him. But holy fuck, does no one care that the Texas police threw the law out of the window here? What they did was actually illegal. Will they be punished? No. Probably not.

But the mainstream press don’t care.  MY GOD, MARK ZUCKERBERG LIKES HIM. THAT IS BASICALLY THE WHOLE STORY HERE.