school. we ve seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. joining me now is irving police chief larry boyd. chief boyd, given a little bit of time to process all this, i imagine you re feeling amount of press increase and the like. do you have regrets how it is handle? i think we re in the process of examining everything that occurred. all the decision points. what we want to do. looking out for the safety of the students and the staff and the school that we re talking about here macarthur high school, and also about how do you make best decision for the student involved in this particular case and you have to weigh the balance of two of those. clearly, as you said stated, there s been a great deal of attention to this issue.
we live in an age where you can t take things like that to school. we ve seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. joining me now is irving police chief larry boyd. chief boyd, given a little bit of time to process all this, i imagine you re feeling amount of press increase and the like. do you have regrets how it is handle? i think we re in the process of examining everything that occurred. all the decision points. what we want to do. looking out for the safety of the students and the staff and the school that we re talking about here macarthur high school, and also about how do you make best decision for the student involved in this particular case and you have to weigh the balance of two of those. clearly, as you said stated, there s been a great deal of attention to this issue. i m receiving a lot of feedback. what we want to make sure we do, as we do with everything.
handled and said race played no role in the incident. what would the police reaction and response been the same had this been a white student who brought that same exact device into the school? our reaction you ve seen the image. our reaction would have been the same either way. that s a suspicious device. we live in an age where you can t take things like that to school. we ve seen it across our country. we have to err on the side of caution. joining me now is irving police chief larry boyd. chief boyd, given a little bit of time to process all this, i imagine you re feeling amount of press increase and the like. do you have regrets how it is handle? i think we re in the process of examining everything that occurred. all the decision points. what we want to do. looking out for the safety of