The oddest part is that my bag was cursory checked and my daughter wasn't even asked to open her purse at the gate we went in -- same reaction from people around us. This was the least amount of security at our gate that I have witnessed since 9-11. But others said they had their bags fully searched at other gates. We probably had a lax police officer in our line.
Prepare for your memories to be second-guessed, your sources to be discredited, your lying eyes to be deceiving, your ears to be in error, your children to be mistaken, their friends to be wrong, your instincts to be misguided, and all this just an unfortunate blunder by one disgruntled individual (nationality unspecified.)