TSA traumatizes child with excessively long pat-down of private areas

TSA traumatizes child with excessively long pat-down of private areas March 29, 2017

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Ever since 9/11, Americans have become accustomed to long security lines and some extra hassle with pat downs by blue-gloved Transportation Security Administration agents. Let’s face it, we need to be secure when we’re flying. But as with any government intervention, abuses follow.

It’s hard to watch what happens at security checkpoints at our nation’s airports, sometimes. You’ll often see grandmothers and kids be whisked away by government employees to have their luggage ransacked and bodies screened for weapons or bombs. So many constitutional violations have occurred but this may be the worst one yet, out of Dallas-Fort Worth:

A mother who asked TSA agents at DFW International Airport for alternative screening for her son with special needs said they were “treated like dogs” and forced to miss a flight during an extensive security check, according to her Facebook post that has since gone viral.

But the Transportation Security Administration said in a prepared statement that it followed approved procedures to “resolve an alarm of the passenger’s laptop.”
Jennifer Williamson wrote Sunday morning that her son has a sensory processing disorder and that she asked agents to “screen him in other ways per TSA rules.”

An accompanying video shows a TSA agent patting down her son. The agent pats down his backside before moving to his front. She writes in the post they were kept for more than hour in the “horrifying” incident.

TSA disputed Williamson’s account, noting in its statement that the passengers were at the checkpoint for about 45 minutes, including the time it took to discuss screening procedures with the teen’s mother and the inspection of three carry-on items.  The pat-down took about two minutes, according to the agency.

The mother said she was livid, as all parents would be. She claims her son set off no alarms and kept asking, “What did I do?”

“I wish I had taped the entire interchange because it was horrifying,” she added. “We had two DFW police officers that were called and flanking him on each side. Somehow these power tripping TSA agents who are traumatizing children and doing whatever they feel like without any cause, need to be reined in.”

Dallas News notes that a supervisor was watching the TSA agent during the entire screening process. But one look at the video and it is troubling to see how much time is spent touching the child all over his body, despite the “proper procedures” for touching someone.

This can’t be okay for America’s children. I mean, does he look like he’s going to bring down a plane? Something has to be done about this.

Click CONTINUE to watch the video and decide for yourself:


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