President Obama invites student arrested for bringing homemade clock to school

Ahmed said the principal claimed his clock looked like a “movie bomb”. Initially who was arrested for all wrong reasons is now high acclaimed by the people across the globe. The response to the punishment has been widespread and vocal – and now President Obama has joined it.

Ahmed, who likes to work with electronics, was proud of the homemade clock he took to school on Monday.

Update, 1p Connecticut (9/16): After the media fallout from Ahmed Mohamed’s arrest this week, the boy received a number of social media notes showing unexpected support from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Hilary Clinton.

“Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House?” the president tweeted.

The White House also weighed in.

“We live in an age where you can’t take things like that to school”, Boyd said. He tweeted that bright, curious kids like Mohamed are “what makes America great”.

IRVING, Texas (AP) – A Muslim teenager detained by police after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb will not face criminal charges, a police chief said Wednesday.

Having the skill and ambition to build something cool should lead to applause, not arrest. “That’s who I thought it was”. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.

He kept the clock in his bag, but it started to beep later in the day during an English class. He showed his clock to the teacher who said it looked like a bomb. But the police kept him busy with questions, the report said.

Support for him began pouring in as the story of his mistaken arrest made the rounds.

A spokesman for the Irving Police Department, James McLellan, told the Tribune that arresting Ahmed was the appropriate course of action.

Ahmed’s father, Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed, emigrated from Sudan but occasionally returns to run for president, the Morning News reported.

A judge denied bail Monday for a white former South Carolina police officer charged with murder in the shooting death of a black motorist, saying his release would “constitute an unreasonable danger to the community”.

Asked if a white student would have been treated differently, he said, “Our reaction would have been the same either way”.

“I am grateful to the United States of America”, he said, attributing the widespread support to “something that was touching the heart for everybody”. “The future belongs to people like Ahmed”, Zuckerberg wrote on his personal Facebook page shortly after 1:30PM.

He added, “Ahmed, if you ever want to come by Facebook, I’d love to meet you”.

School district spokeswoman Lesley Weaver on Wednesday declined to confirm Ahmed’s suspension, citing privacy laws, but said officials were concerned with student safety and not the boy’s faith.