Clock kid Ahmed Mohamed is seeking $15M after his arrest

Mike Gallagher

Nov 24, 2015 - 02:04

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Clock kid Ahmed Mohamed is seeking $15M after his arrest

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, is back (Picture: AP Photo/LM Otero)

Just when you thought you’d heard the last of him, Ahmed Mohamed (aka the clock kid) is back.

The 14-year-old is demanding $15million from Texas officials along with an apology after he was arrested earlier this year.

Ahmed’s been everywhere from the Google to the White House since he brought in his homemade clock which was mistaken for a bomb.

Ahmed Mohamed was arrested earlier this week (Picture: AP)

Ahmed Mohamed was arrested earlier this year (Picture: AP)

His family was overwhelmed by offers to support Mohamed’s education and decided to move to Qatar after receiving a full scholarship for his secondary and undergraduate education, his father told the Dallas Moing News.

President Barack Obama joined a surge of public support by congratulating the teen on his skills, in what was seen as a pointed rebuke to school and police officials amid accusations of Islamophobia.

epa04935267 An undated handout photo provided on 17 September 2015 by the City of Irving, Texas, shows the clock that Ahmed Mohamed had made and took to school in Irving, Texas, USA. Ahmed wanted to show a homemade clock he had made to his engineering teacher at high school in Irving, a Dallas suburb, on 14 September. But the device alarmed officials, who believed it was a bomb. The device was confiscated by a teacher and Ahmed was summoned to a school office to explain. He was then suspended from school, walked out in handcuffs and taken to a juvenile detention centre and fingerprinted, according to the Dallas Moing News. US President Barack Obama on 16 September showed support for the 14-year-old Texas high school student, tweeting '"Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?" EPA/CITY OF IRVING / HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY

The clock that was mistaken for a bomb (Picture: EPA)

‘Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great,’ Obama tweeted.

Invitations poured in from Facebook, Google, the United Nations and in the coming weeks Mohamed tweeted photos of visits to New York, Sudan, Qatar and Mecca.