Here are the stories of two events that happened in Texas, and how they were handled. One involves an immediate arrest, the other a delayed action

Ahmed Mohamed, a 14 year old freshman who likes to make his own radios, brought a homemade clock to his new school, MacArthur High in Irving, Texas, to impress his teachers on Monday. It was a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display.

He loved robotics club in middle school and was hoping to be able to get involved with something similar at his new high school.

Instead of the praise he expected, Ahmed was arrested, handcuffed, and brought to a juvenile detention center.

He had shown his clock to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning, but the only reaction he got was slight praise, being told it was nice, and a warning not to show it to anyone else.

This turned out to be good advice.

In English class the clock, which was in his book bag, started beeping (anyone who has taught recently has had this happen with student cell phone alarms and wrist watches), and the teacher advised him to turn whatever it was off. He showed his clock to the teacher after class, expecting a positive reaction, but instead was told it looked like bomb, and the teacher took it.

He assumed he would get it back at the end of the day, but during his sixth period class the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of class, and brought him to a room where four other police officers waited. Even though he had never seen any of them before, one officer said, “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”

His belongings were searched while he was asked a series of questions.

In spite of his explaining it was a clock, the police officers and the principal insisted it looked like a movie bomb.

Police spokesman James McLellan has stated, “We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb. He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation. It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”

Ahmed’s hands were cuffed behind his back, and he was led out of the school in front of other students and some faculty by officers on each arm. He was brought to the juvenile detention center, fingerprinted, and then released to his parents.

“They thought, ‘How could someone like this build something like this unless it’s a threat?’” Ahmed said.

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, who immigrated from Sudan and occasionally returns there to run for president, has said, “He just wants to invent good things for mankind, but because his name is Mohamed and because of Sept. 11, I think my son got mistreated.”

You may remember Ahmed’s father since he made national headlines for debating a Florida pastor who burned a Quran.

Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne has fueled rumors in speeches that the religious minority was plotting to usurp American laws, so there may be a negative atmosphere in Irving, Texas, when it comes to people with “foreign” names, and “foreign” religions..

According to Alia Salem, who directs the Council on American-Islamic Relations North Texas chapter, “This all raises a red flag for us: how Irving’s government entities are operating in the current climate. We’re still investigating, but it seems pretty egregious.”

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No crime, simple explanation, immediate arrest and punishment, and a bad reputation that will follow this student throughout his high school years, and kids are an unforgiving lot.

In contrast:

This past Tuesday a Dallas man got a sentence of 10 years probation for causing the death of a Transgender woman he had been dating.

Jonathan Stuart Kenney, 29, beat 43-year-old Janette Tovar to death.

Theirs was not an ideal relationship as, according to their landlord, there had been quite a few loud fights in their apartment. He lived in the apartment below and had heard the fights, and had occasionally banged on his ceiling to send the message they needed to stop, or at least lower the volume.

One day in October 2012 during a public fight Kenney slammed Tovar’s head on a concrete roadway. Later that afternoon, Kenney called 911 and reported that Tovar was dead.

The medical examiner determined the cause of death to be blunt force trauma.

According to the police report, at 7:30 p.m. on the night of Tovar’s death  Kenney “provided a taped voluntary statement” in which he admitted to “slamming Complainant Tovar’s head into the concrete at Tyler and Davis,” and that, “he continued the assault on Complainant Tovar when they arrived home.”

But, in spite of giving a taped confession to the police on a Monday, he was not arrested until that Thursday. The Dallas Police Department did not explain the delay when asked.

When he was arrested he was charged with murder, but was later re-indicted on a charge of aggravated assault, a first-degree felony.

Pleading guilty to aggravated assault means that, if he sticks to the conditions of his probation, Kenney won’t serve prison time, and will avoid a formal conviction on his record.

Attorneys would have had to assumed that Tovar may have also been an aggressor in the fight in order to arrive at the plea bargain, and Messina Madson, first assistant for the Dallas County district attorney’s office explained, “In a tragic case like this one, plea agreements are always difficult. We base plea decisions on the evidence available in any specific case and an overriding desire for justice for both victims and those charged with crimes. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Tovar family at this time.”

But Tovar’s aggression is only supposition

So there is a major crime followed by a delayed arrest in spite of an admission.

In one case there is immediate action taken toward a kid with brown skin and a Muslim name; in the other case you have the murder of a Transgender person and a confession by the murderer, followed by a delayed reaction.

Two “outsiders”.

Is it just me, or does anyone else see what happened here.