The homemade digital clock built by 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed and mistaken for a bomb by Irving school officials. (Irving police photo via AP)
DALLAS (AP) — The father of a Muslim boy arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Dallas-area school has sued conservative commentator Glenn Beck and a Texas mayor alleging they falsely portrayed the family as terrorists.
Mohamed Mohamed filed the defamation lawsuit Sept. 21 in Dallas on behalf of himself and his 14-year-old son, Ahmed. The lawsuit also names Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne (dyn).
The lawsuit seeks a retraction, a jury trial and unspecified damages related to comments following the teen’s September 2015 arrest at school in Irving. A charge of having a hoax bomb was later dropped.
The lawsuit describes the Mohamed family as “peaceful Muslims” falsely accused of being terrorists and engaging in a jihad.
Messages left for comment from Beck and Van Duyne weren’t immediately returned Tuesday.