There was so much assholiness goin’ on this week that I’m not even gonna start listing it. But, we do have an example that far surpasses the rest.
Getting through the line at the TSA can be a long and uncomfortable process. For one Chattanooga teen and her mother, the process turned into a scary nightmare.
19-year-old Hannah Cohen was returning home from St. Jude’s Hospital with her mother for treatment of her brain tumor (a trip they had made for 17 years), when Hannah somehow set off the metal detector at the security checkpoint.
TSA wanted to do a further scan on Hannah, but she was reluctant. Hannah’s mother, Shirley Cohen, tried to inform the agents that her daughter was disabled. She is partially deaf and blind in one eye, paralyzed, and becomes easily confused. “They wanted to do further scanning, she was reluctant, she didn’t understand what they were about to do,” she said.
Despite her concerns, Shirley was kept away from her daughter by police. Hannah, obviously afraid, tried to get away from the grips of the TSA. “She’s trying to get away from them but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. There was blood everywhere,” said Shirley.
Yep! The goons at the TSA roughed up a disabled 19-year-old girl. The cops kept the mother away from the poor girl. JHFC! This is America? Some goons on a power trip treated this disabled girl like a criminal and drew blood. WTF is wrong with these people? The mother screwed up. She should have put her daughter in a burka and everything would have worked out fine.
The teen was arrested, booked, and sent to jail. “Here we were with nowhere to go, not even a toothbrush, our bags had gone to Chattanooga,” said the distraught mother.
The wrong people were arrested and sent to jail. It should have been the cops and the TSA agents involved in this fiasco.
Authorities have thrown out the charges, but the Cohen family has filed a lawsuit against TSA, Memphis Airport, and Memphis Airport Police.
And I hope they take them for a large sum. Heads should roll. Just out of curiosity, I would be interested in knowing the race of the cops and the TSA agents.
None of the accused parties would acknowledge wrongdoing, but TSA representative Sari Koshetz made a statement saying, “Passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation.”
Bullshit! American citizens deserve to be treated with respect. Thanks Moslems for causing this shit. We constantly hear liberals screaqm about “common sense gun control”. Howza ’bout common sense airport screenings? The TSA makes me sick. This is one of the reasons I hardly ever fly anymore. This situation was inexcusable. Every TSA agent and every cop involved in this incident should be fired. That won’t happen, but they do get to share an AOTW Award.
Don’t y’all feel safer with the Memphis TSA and the Memphis Airport Police on the job?