Glenn Beck dedicated a segment of his radio program today to reiterating his conviction that the arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a homemade clock to school was some sort of set-up by radical Muslim activists, insisting today that it was entirely appropriate for police to arrest and handcuff the ninth grader because they had no way of knowing whether his clock was actually just the timer for a bomb that was to be delivered to someone else at the school who was carrying explosives.
While Beck had literally no evidence to support any of his suspicions, he declared that the police had no choice but to arrest and handcuff Mohamed because he might have decided to “go crazy” and try to run and then, if something were to have happen to him, “it’s the cop’s fault, so they have to put him in handcuffs.”
“They should have arrested him,” Beck stated. “That’s exactly how you build a bomb.”
Asserting that the police had no idea why Mohamed had brought his clock to school, Beck said the police had no choice but to arrest him. “You have to say, ‘What is your motivation? Is there anybody else involved? Are you bringing the timing device? Does somebody else in school have explosives?'”
You would think that Beck would be a little more careful about basely spreading accusations like this considering that the last time he did so, he wound up getting himself sued.
