Mohamed's arrest was covered extensively throughout mainstream media, including editorial coverage in the New York Times, Vox, Gawker, and Slate. According to analytics group Topsy, the hashtag had been used almost 500,000 times in less than 24 hours, and in the afternoon of September 16th, 2015, was being used at a rate of about 100,000 times per hour. Twitter released the below chart demonstrating the hashtag's growth. The #IStandWithAhmed hashtag began to trend worldwide in the 24 hours after Mohamed's arrest. Soon after the first news of Mohamed's arrest began to go viral, Mohamed's two older sisters, Eyman, 18, and Ayisha, 17, created a Twitter account for Mohamed using the hashtag people were using to talk about his story, Within 5 hours of the account's first tweet, he had 31,400 followers. An initial post of the photograph of Mohamed being arrested to the subreddit /r/pics received 5,899 points (96% upvoted), while an additional post of a video to the subreddit /r/videos of Ahmed's father running for President in his native country of Sudan received 6,146 points (95% upvoted). Īs soon as this story was published by the Dallas Morning News, it began to accrue heavy online reaction across all social media sites. Once there, Ahmed was then allowed to contact his parents, a privilege of which he was previously denied. Mohamed was later pulled from his sixth period class and taken to the principal's office where he was interrogated by several officers before being handcuffed and taken to a juvenile detention center. The teacher then confiscated the clock under the impression it looked like a bomb. Instead of impressing his teachers, Ahmed's engineering teacher suggested that he not "show any other teachers," but when the clock beeped during an English class, the teacher demanded to inspect the device. Happy with his design, Ahmed installed it in a pencil box and brought it to school the next day.
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On September 13th, 2015, Ahmed had constructed a DIY electronic clock based on a design he found on the internet. Ahmed had hoped to impress his new high school teachers with his knowledge of circuitry and electronics. "My hobby is to invent stuff," said Ahmed Mohamed to the Dallas Morning News. Ninth grader Ahmed Mohamed is a self-taught electronics enthusiast who was a member of the robotics club in his previous middle school.
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