Lawsuit: Airport search indecent. Amarillo Globe News.
If it is not enough that the TSA is now freely allowed to grope complete strangers, young and old alike, at will. Or at least claim some hint of suspicious behavior or appearance of the stranger to justify their molestation. Sexual assault now legal, as long as the TSA is the employer.
Now we hear that this is not just a practice nouveau. Why it now dates back at least two years.
Apparently, a young woman was about to take a flight from Corpus Christi to Amarillo, Texas on May 29, 2008. Something caught the eye of the TSA screener, and the young lady in her early twenties was taken aside to be personally accosted.
“As the TSA agent was frisking plaintiff, the agent pulled the plaintiff’s blouse completely down, exposing plaintiffs’ breasts to everyone in the area,” the lawsuit said. “As would be expected, plaintiff was extremely embarrassed and humiliated.”
The suit also claims that other TSA employees continued to joke and laugh about the incident for an extended period of time. The woman was distraught over the incident and left the screening area so an acquaintance could console her, the suit said.
When the woman re-entered the boarding area, employees once again began joking about the matter, the suit said.
“One male TSA employee expressed to the plaintiff that he wished he would have been there when she came through the first time and that ‘he would just have to watch the video,’” the suit said.
It’s come to this? TSA agents joking about a woman’s breasts being exposed in public? And hoping they could have been present for the moment?
Who hires these people? If their job, by the nature of their public safety mission, does not require a modicum of integrity, then as human beings interacting with others in a very public platform, should practice some measure of respect when situations turn unexpected and embarrassing.
The crude and humiliating behavior openly displayed towards this young woman merits nothing short of the complaint she filed. And since it went unanswered, then the lawsuit that followed.
‘Stop touching me!’ Fury as airport security staff are caught on camera searching a crying three-year-old girl. Daily Mail.
More accosted.
- 3-year old girl in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who set off the alarm twice and got frisked while crying. Will she grow up thinking it is okay for an adult to touch any and all sensitive areas?
‘Stop touching me!’
- A 54-year old man wearing shorts was subjected to a’pat down’ he termed ‘sexual assault’ in Fort Lauderdale.
he was subjected to a ‘groping’ by a TSA officer, and he believe his experience was tantamount to sexual molestation.
‘[The officer] put his hand in between my underwear and my skin and did a 360 all the way around, touching certain sesitive points in the back and the front.’
- Radio DJ Owen Stone, a.k.a. ’OhDoctah’ described his experience.
the TSA agent responded: ‘I have to go in your waistband, I have to put my hand down your pants.’
He said that the agent pulled out the waistband of his sweatpants before patting his backside and his crotch.
the TSA agent directly felt his testicles, penis and backside while his hand was inside his pants.
- John Tyner, the 31-year old software engineer who rebuffed the groin check, with the now famous words, “You touch my junk and I’m going to have you arrested.” He captured the 30 minute audio interaction with TSA in San Diego on a cell phone video. In response, he got ejected from the airport, and then threatened with a fine and a lawsuit. Looks like the viral video and press afterwards put the TSA on defense.
The TSA is now engaging in equal opportunity legal molestation. And is relishing every moment.
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