Ahmed Mohamed, 14, arrested over clock mistaken for bomb. Reasonable precaution or massive overreaction?

The poor kid just made a clock to look like the one his dad made...! Bwahahahahahaha I must be funny today! LOL :D

Am I confusing this with another case or is this the kid whose family moved back to the middle east after filing a $10,000,000.00 lawsuit? If this is the kid, he wasn't so bright as stated. It was a kit clock with parts left off to make it look like something different. Kind of looks a little staged to me here in order to file a lawsuit. I will agree it wasn't handled correctly by law enforcement. I tend to lean towards safety over PC BS. Lets put it a different way. Had it been a bomb and the school had done nothing and 200 kids died in an explosion...what would be said about the school now??? People want safety for our kids including me, well sometimes that goes along with not being so PC

it was a clock in a suitcase... looked like a bomb to me....... Do I blame the teacher and school for their reactions? hell no

14 year old is old enough to know responsibility. I did not know his teacher had prior knowledge. If that was the case, the teacher should be fired. The kid suspended for being stupid. But, being he was BLACK, he was invited to the White House. Big time BS

That looks like dynamite with a timer on it. Regardless of race that kid would have gotten lit up, at least in the school I came up in.

I read that this was set up from the go, the alleged clock was bought from Radio Shack and the kid shopped the device around till he got a rise from someone...now the poor "victim" is seeing our king...oops...president....what ever.

Truth is teachers and cops are dumb. The parents of the kid should have had a conversation about race and being Muslim in America. Don't bring weird things to class. Teacher's reaction wasn't reasonable, but I am not surprised. I don't understand why America puts teachers and cops on a pedestal. If you lower expectations, you get less outrage.

I bet if his name was John Smith, he would never had been arrested nor be in the news.

BLUF: For that past several years kids have been getting arrested for stupid stuff with no public outrage.

I can understand why the teacher was concerned; however, for your enjoyment, here are some examples of really outrages arrests/detaiments and none of these involve things that look like potential explosives. There is a butter knife and a knife to core an apple.

"The following are 19 (I listed 14) really crazy things that school children are being arrested for in America….

#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.
#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.
#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.
#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.
#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.
#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.
#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.
#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.
#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.
#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.
#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back…." and so on and so on...

Have you been following what his dad is doing. When the kid was asked questions by the police he was vague and would not answere. Like the woman who made up a story of discrimination that did not happen CAIR is playing this for all it is worth. Then Obama knocks it up a knotch by inviting him to the White House. Know his dad an CAIR have gotten access to the White House. By bullying the school and if they don't have the money for a prolonged fight. They will end up paying this kid off. And teachers will be second guessing themselves before they call the police again.