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Sudanese-American boy handcuffed for bringing homemade clock to school

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There's a photo of him in handcuffs, wearing a NASA t-shirt:

http://i.imgur.com/itmlhX8.jpg

Unless he's really resilient, we've lost him as a future STEM student.

Is there any study to ascertain how these kind of incidents affect children psychologically, the effects of which manifest only years later? (Let's assume that this boy is a gifted engineer, and this incident leaves deep psychological scars not expressed in the next few years, but eventually leads him to take up activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens)

activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens

You mean like inventing robots that take away american jobs? That's just the free market.

Projecting a criminal future adds to the harm to him, don't do it.

This is why there are real ones.

let's all avoid the M word.

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