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From the article:

An ABIA spokesman says it is TSA policy that anyone activating a security alarm has two options. One is to opt out and not fly, and the other option is to subject themselves to an enhanced pat down. Hirschkind refused both and was arrested.

She has the right to refuse the enhanced pat-down and go home without being arrested. She refused to go home it appears. I am not sure what she was charged with though?

[achilles2000]

SHE HAS THE RIGHT NOT TO BE GROPED WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE. Got it now?

[andyk]

She refused to go home it appears. I am not sure what she was charged with though?

That is the million dollar question, and the obvious one that the reporter should have asked. If the options in the article are accurate, and she refused the pat down and she refused to go home (which I thought was against their procedure and they would fine you $10K for doing), then it seems she either tried to force her way past the checkpoint (not likely, or that surely would've been in the article), or she refused to go home and was arrested for loitering or trespassing? Either way, we're missing some detail.