US Olympic swimmers pulled off plane by Brazil police

The Telegraph ^ | 8/17/2016 | David Lawler

[Truth29]

"The video clearly shows Lochte taking his wallet out while going through security."

Don't have any idea of what really happened, but how many times did the swimmers go through that security checkpoint on various days? I would suspect there is video of them every day they have been there so I would be cautious without forensic proof that the recording is from than night and not time stamp altered.

[Stingray51]

Great point about having no idea as to the date and time of that video but also it does not “clearly” show a wallet, not to my eyes.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

.....No right to take away their passports.

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Your passport is your permission to enter and leave a country. With that permission, you must abide by the host country's laws. If you break those laws, your "permission" is revoked...that is why a passport CAN be taken by a foreign country. They DO have the "right." (The USA has the same right).

[freedom1st]

This is so bullsh$t. The swimmers committed no crime. Brazil has no right to pull the swimmers off the plane, much less detain them and hold their passports. Where's the Secretary of State? He should be demanding their release immediately and be allowed to leave that hell hole of a country. All of the US Olympic athletes should refuse to compete in the remaining events until the swimmers are allowed to leave. If Trump were President this would have not happened to the US swimmers. As a US citizen this burns me up. The US government should intervene and get the swimmers out of Brazil instead of allowing the Brazil government to trample their rights.