The school district in a statement denied violating the student’s rights and said it could provide no further comment because the matter was in litigation. The family has previously demanded $15 million from the city of Irving and the school district. The family of a Muslim boy, who was arrested last year after taking a homemade digital clock to a Dallas-area high school, sued the Texas school district and the city where he once lived on Monday, saying they violated the teenager’s civil rights. The 2015 arrest of Ahmed Mohamed, then a 14-year-old bespectacled ninth-grader who dabbled in robotics and attended high school in Irving, had ignited a social media firestorm. “The only way to get justice is through money,” Mohamed told a news conference in Texas on Monday.

Source: Huffington Post August 08, 2016 22:18 UTC