2027488002 for independents. We set aside our fourth line for Muslim Americans. We want to hear from you. 2027488003. You can also text your thoughts. Make comments and be a social. Edia from Time Magazine, the sheer lunacy of cuffing a kid over a homemade clock. Ahmed brought a clock he made to school using Circuit Board stock. One teacher thought it looked like a bomb. Whocalled the principle called the cops because you can never be too careful. The cops asked ahmed some , found him insufficiently forthcoming, cuffed him and took him out of the school because, you know, safety first. This would all come under the title of comic misunderstanding until we get to the part of the handcuffs. How does a skinny eighthgrader with no prior history of misbehavior and up in that terrifying situation . Why not call on local knowledge from the engineering teacher who reportedly had already seen the clock and deemed it cool . Ahmed was new to macarthur high school. Could officials find no friends or relatives who could have been called upon to speak for him . Toause the grownups had think of safety above all costs, his clock is just an extreme example of overreaction of school officials. In november, a deputy in kentucky handcuffed and all metro school child for misbehavior in class. An Elementary School child. In march of 2014, a young kid was suspended for shaving her head in sympathy with a friend who had cancer. School Officials Say they thought ahmed might have made a hoax bomb to freak people out. Two generally cause mischief. Thats true, its unlikely he would have been treated the same way if his name arnoldnold were instead of ahmed. His parents and not the police, his safety would have been as well as everybody elses. That is from Time Magazine yesterday. This is from breitbart. Race grifters unite. 14yearold Ahmed Mohammed arrested over suitcase clock. He brought it to school to show it off and a teacher concerned that it looked like a bomb called police. Mohammed was let out of school by police in handcuffs and suspended for three days. He did nothing wrong. A kid showing off his Technical Skills should not result in an arrest or suspension. There is also no evidence that police did anything wrong. In the angel called by in the age of columbine and sandy hook, police and schools are required to be hyper cautious. What ahmed built does not look like a simple clock. To see how the secret service and tsa would react to such a thing. Maybe we will find out. President obama has already invited Ahmed Mohammed to the white house. That is a little bit from the breitbart take on this issue. We want to hear from you now. Get your response to Ahmed Mohammed being arrested on monday for bringing this homemade clock to school. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 027488002 for independents we set aside our fourth line for Muslim Americans. 3. 2748800 we also invite you if you want to make a comment via text to send in a text message. In alabama on a republican line. Caller good morning. I dont know a whole lot about kid said to police and why they arrested him. But, i have seen the picture of the clock. To me, it does not look like any clock. Have thoughtd maybe it is some kind of bomb. Let me tell you why people are so sensitive about the name of any muslim living anywhere in the world. That come in todays day, 2015, people are being beheaded because they are not muslim. The whole Muslim Community all over the world, they are just watching. People now controlling a large part of the middle east where there are millions of People Living there. That is unbelievable. To me, islam is the hate group. Thats what it is. But nobody wants to come out and say it. Anybody to say what is the difference between any other hate group and islam. Islam should be banned. It should not be treated like any other religion. It has dehumanized an entire population of the world under their influence. Whether its the middle east or any muslim country, you look at before host where are you from originally . Caller im originally from india. Host blake on the republican line. This is maria and hillsboro, New Hampshire on the independent line. Caller good morning. I think both parties are at fault. The family and the school. Host we are listening. Caller first of all, the parents should know better than to send their child with something it does not look like a clock to me. The parents should have told the child, you cannot bring that to school. Or, go to school, tell the principal this is what he has and is he allowed to bring it in. That is all. Reacted tohorribly this situation by handcuffing a child. You call the parents first. This would have eliminated all these headlines on the poor child. Thats all. It is the school and the family both at fault. Host henry from crownsville, maryland on our Muslim American line. Caller good morning. Can you hear me . Host we are listening, sir. Caller i think the school is justified to ensure the safety of the children. The School Behavior the police handcuffing everybody. Justified, its just an issue of how the police should have reacted. News, trump lets comment about muslims being problem in u. S. Slide. Here is a bit from his town meeting yesterday. [video clip] we have a problem in this country. Its called muslims. We know our current president is one. You know hes not even an american. Camps, we have training growing with it out to kill us. That is my question. When can we get rid of them . We will be looking at a lot of Different Things been a lot of people are saying that and a lot of people are saying that there are things happening out there. We will be looking at that and plenty of other things. Host up next is bill in texas on a republican line. What do you think about Ahmed Mohammed being suspended from school . Caller good morning. When you see something, you should do something. If this had been a White Christian youngster, when obama has invited him to the white house . Host rich in spring hill, florida. What is your view on this . Caller its a dammed if you do damage if you dont situation. Dammed if you dont situation. These schools are put in place to protect our children. However, if they did not do something and it turned out this clock was a bomb, everybody would be screaming why didnt the school do something. They should have taken the middleoftheroad approach. Local Police Department should have had a bomb expert that could have come in quietly, taken the child in a separate room, looked at it and then deemed what is appropriate. The child is the one that suffered, but i dont think the school did anything wrong. As far as calling the police to come. Thank you very much and i love cspan. Host thank you for watching. From our Facebook Page ali right here in washington, d. C. Caller good morning. If the young man had intended to do harm, terrorists dont alert you. They walk in with it, their package of dangers contraptions and next thing you know, you have an explosion. America is supposed to be a separate society. It is based on jewish christian values. Instrument that he constructed to two people. His first professor was an engineering person. The first professor told him that looks good. If i were you, i would not show it to nobody. He was enthusiastic about what he had created. He showed it again to a second teacher who alerted the authorities. Terrorist would not let you know would not set off an alarm until they detonate or bring harm to people. In karen tweets if you cannot get through on the phone line, you want to text in a comment from your mobile phone , 2027179684 is the number two text. You can send a text message to the number. Kathy calling from pennsylvania. Democrat. I would like to know the others who called and had accents. Knows this kid was just making an experiment. I dont think you should have been handcuffed or anything for it. He should not been with invited to the white house, i dont think he should have been invited to the white house, either. Host matthew in hampton, virginia. Republican line. Caller good morning. We have to much hypersensitivity in america. Comment on what a few people have said if that man had been white come i dont think you would of swept off to jail like that. I dont think he would have been swept off to jail like that. Did not see anything in the suitcase that looked like any sticks of dynamite or anything like that. Board and diodes and wires. It was not attached to any plastics or anything like that. Anything, were supposed be vigilant. Lets become. Lets be called. Assess the situation. Lets not be too quick to react. Lets be proactive. Lets look at it, analyze it, ok. Nothing looked like dynamite. Lets get smart, people. Lets learn what electronics look like. Please. Thank you. Host Ahmed Mohammed and his mother appeared on msnbc. [video clip] theres five officers and the principal. Did you ask them, can i call my parents and tell them whats going on . Yes. What did they say . , you cannot me know call your parents, you were in the middle of an interrogation at the moment. What kind of things did they ask you . They ask me a couple of times, is it a bomb . I answered a couple times, it is a clock. That did not seem to satisfy them . No. How long were you in that room . About an hour 25 minutes. What else were they asking you . They asked me why i would bring a clock to school. I explained to them that i brought it to school to show my teachers to impress them. Eventually, after an hour and a half, is that when they handcuffed you . Yes. Did they say youre under arrest or being charged . They told me i was under arrest. For a hoax bomb. How did you feel . I felt like i was a criminal. I felt like i was a terrorist. All the names i was called. Host from cnn. Com, clock making teen transferred to another school. The family says hes not going back to macarthur high. The family has not yet picked a new school and is exploring options inside and outside the country. Alabama on herin independent line. Best hour independent line. Caller i have a problem with the fact that they put him in handcuffs. The school had a good reason to call in somebody to look at it which is to check. I cannot find any justification for him to be put in handcuffs. s ignorance of what it is is not justification to say it is a hoax bomb. Just because you look at something and think its a ho ax bomb does not make it a hoax bomb. It was a good deal for the school. They did what they felt was necessary to keep the school safe. The police should have had the ability to put someone there and have them actually sit there and look at it and say no, this is not a bomb, there is not even explosive attached. Tweetthis if you want to send in a tweet 2027179684 is our new text number. Fromis calling in california. Republican line. Caller how are you today . Why theyigure it out, arrested him to begin with after an hour and a half and then to suspend him for three days . I think the Teacher Needs to get a new job. The police, too. , when thathing is guy at the donald trump rally was talking all that crap, how come donald trump did not stop that guy . Like senator mccain did. Ignorantut the most person running for president i have ever seen in my life. Was named ronnie cox and he was white, nothing would have happened. They probably would have gave him an a and gave him the day off and bought him a coke and a hamburger. We have to have some sense. To say all muslims should be put in hate groups, we have some ignorant people in the United States. I am really sick of it. Have a nice day. Host this is woodrow in california. Democrats line. Caller i would just like to express my disgust with all the blaming obama for boosting this kids selfesteem after it was decimated. He has invited plenty of White Christian kids to the white house. Host the irving, Texas Independent School district made a statement after this happened. We always ask our students and staff to report if they observe any suspicious items and or suspicious behavior. If something is out of the ordinary, the information should be reported immediately to a School Administrator and or the police so it can be addressed right away. We will always take necessary precautions to protect our students and keep our School Community as safe as possible. This text message chuck in leesburg, virginia on her independent line. Power independent line. It is your view . Caller obviously, this was a story the media was this was like a prime i bet when the media heard this, they went all over it. Lets be realistic. Ahmed had a racial factor. When you have a device that looks like a bomb and you have a muslim child, that is a recipe for disaster. President obama handled it very professionally by inviting him to the white house. Mark zuckerberg has invited him to facebook. I read something about an internship. Many people are realizing that technologically, this young child was very talented in the field of science. I agree with the previous colors as well. Ald trumps comments were the comments made to donald trump were ferocious. His lack of correcting the speaker was plain sickening. Thats all i wanted to say. Everyone, have a good time. 9 11 was an inside job howard stern rules. Host this young mans civil rights were stepped on. John is calling in on the republican line from new york. Im a retired ranger. I dont have anything against muslims. The school has to they are not trained in explosives. The family should not send him to school with that. Im surprised the science cher did not have an idea when the police came, they should have sent somebody who knew about explosives. When they brought him into question, they might have thought he was he kept saying its a clock. They got their hair ruffled a little bit. They roughed him up a little bit because he was a muslim. Host you said you are a retired ranger. What do you mean by ranger . Caller army ranger. I dont think there is any problem with obama inviting him to the white house. The kid went through a traumatic event with the police. Im sure he never had to go through that. Think that is a problem. Im not going to bash him for doing that. The police have to be more careful. They are the ones who are trained. Host jesse in rosedale, maryland. Democrats like. Good morning. Caller good morning. The reason they were so crazy about that clock, they saw that transformer. They went ballistic thinking it was a bomb. I used to install doorbells. Sudden, they told me i could not buy transformers anymore. I tried to figure out why. Out . What did you figure caller they were making bombs with them. Host jesse in maryland. Oxford, mississippi. Independent line. Go ahead. Caller just listening to some of the people, i just realized, idiots who are racists are idiots who dont and cant realize that they are idiots. Especially when they are racists. Donald trump does not help us at all. Amazing we still have idiots. We are looking at our next great event will probably be our next people need to look in the mirror and ask themselves, why are they such idiots . I pray for this world. I cant hardly listen to some of the racist statements being made. We still have people making racist comments about our president. I will keep this world in prayer. Thank you. Host this text susan in hampton, virginia. Republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. I dont think it was racist. They just overreacted. Yesterday, the white house evacuated they found a suspicious package and it was a copy mug coffee mug. I dont agree the kid should have been handcuffed. Forkids have been suspended fighting a pop tart in the shape of a gun. Theyve been suspended for wearing american flags on their shirts. This is why im sending my grandson to a parochial school. Public schools have gotten crazy. Im not sure about the donald trump comment. Maybe i came in late. Some man thought made a comment that the president was a muslim. Most muslims change their names. In edwin tweets sean is a teacher here in washington, d. C. Calling in on the democrats line. Caller hows it going . The racial implications of the incident are pretty obvious. I completely disagree with the school and local Law Enforcements response to this. Folks, a lot of the School Reforms that have been taking place over the last several years have done a lot to therofessionalize workforce, take people out of the profession who have the common sense and Critical Thinking skills to look at these situations and evaluate. Clear, we are is scraping at the bottom of the barrel here in terms of who becomes educators. The incentives are not there anymore. You get lots of situations like this. What the heck were they thinking . Why didnt they use the Critical Thinking skills they are supposed to teach to look at the situation before they reacted . Host what do you teach . Caller i teach kindergarten. Host lets say you taught older kids. One of your students brought in such a device. What would be your reaction . , i wouldirst of all have a conversation with the child and ask them whats going on. What is this . Can you tell me about it . Was this an assignment . Was this a project ongoing with the school . To sit there and just look at it and react this way boggles my imagination. The storiest about out there. Teachers making completely ridiculous decisions and administrators reacting to situations in ridiculous ways. A lot of the rules and regulations teachers have to go through, restrict them up all their autonomy. We will get lots of hamfisted situations like this host . Have the police ever come to your school . Caller the police have i teach in d. C. It is a 100 africanamerican, free or reduced meals, high poverty area. The police have come to arrest parents right outside their childs classroom doors. We dont get a lot of patrols because we are in an isolated part of southeast. Theres not a lot of good relationships between our students and community members. Weve had shootings in the area and things of that nature. Weve had police come and interrupt or stop altercations between