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Larry Boyd, Chief of Police

Karina Perla, Records Clerk, Records Section
September 17, 2015
Encounter with Ahmed Mohamed

On Monday, September 14 at around 4:00 pm and 5:00pm I watched Officer Taylor escort Ahmed
Mohamed to his family, who were in the Community Service department. I could hear Ahmed's father
demanding that they drop charges or he would not take his son home. A few minutes later Ahmed and
his family walked out of Community Services and out of the station. They returned and approached my
window and Ahmed asked,"Can I have my devices back?'" I replied, "What do you mean your devices?"
He said, "Yeah my clock and my tablet." I then pulled up the report, and looked in property tab and
noticed that it was listed as evidence. I then said, "You will need to speak with the person in charge of
your case because it is listed as evidence and evidence is not releaseble."He then yelled at me and
slammed his hand on the counter and said, " WHY IS MY DEVICE LISTED AS EVIDENCE? I AM BEING
RELEASED! I NEED IT BACK RIGHT NOW!!" Christina then stepped in and told Ahmed, "You do not need
to be getting an attitude with us because we are just telling you what the officer told us." Officer
Howman then passed by, and she asked, What's the problem here?" He then left our counter and talked
to Officer Howman. He was being very demanding on getting his devices because they searched his
belongings without his consent. He became loud with Officer Howman, so Maria Diaz and Christina
Anguiano went into Community Service to get Sergeant Mitchell. Sergeant Mitchell then came with
Officer Taylor and spoke to Ahmed's family letting them know that the device would be released to
them once they were done with it.Ahmed then told Sergeant Mitchell that he had rights and he knew
what they were and Irving Police violated them. Ahmed's sister was yelling that it was just because he
was muslim that they thought he brought a bomb to school.Ahmed's father then asked to speak with
the supervisor, and Sergeant Mitchell told him that he was the supervisor. A citizen approached our
door and was hesistent on enterting due to this altercation.His family began getting loud again about
getting Ahmed's devices back. Sergeant Mitchell then said that they could take their son and leave the
station or they would be criminally trespassed from the Police Department.The sister then told the
family," lets go because they are just being racist because we are muslims." Before leaving Ahmed's dad
told all three Officers that God is watching, and as they were leaving Ahmed's sister yelled something in
their language.They exited the station.