Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took to Facebook on Sept. 19, Saturday, to defend the arrest and suspension of ninth grader Ahmed Mohamed after he brought a homemade clock to school.
Palin shared pictures of her kids' pencil boxes and wrote, "Yep, believing that's a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history. Right. That's a clock, and I'm the Queen of England."
For Palin, initial media reports of Mohamed's arrest were fishy and school officials were justified in thinking that the ninth grader's made out of a pencil box was a bomb. She also described him as an "evidently obstinate-answering student."
Palin compared Mohamed's arrest to the suspension of other students in the past. Six students at a Michigan high school were suspended by school officials for having firearms in their car in 2010 and a seven-year-old student at a Maryland school was suspended after waving around his Pop Tart which he chewed into the shape of a gun in 2013.
On the other hand, police knew that Mohamed's clock was not a bomb but they still arrested him, according to Huffington Post.
In addition, Palin slammed Barack Obama in the Facebook post about Mohamed. She wrote, "By the way, President Obama's practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago."
Palin also shared a Patheos article written by her daughter Bristol Palin about Mohamed getting invited to the White House.