Posted on 07/01/2016 3:24:27 PM PDT by lowbridge
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.
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.
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“If you want an illusion of safety, you’re gonna have to bust a few heads of the disabled now and then.”
this family better be set for life...I’d sue the hell outta everybody!!!!!!
If they both were wearing hijabs they would have been allowed through with no questions asked.
Welcome to Obama’s America
TSA is beyond repair. Eliminate it and turn security over to the airports.
ghastly - what have we become when this can happen here?
The TSA job attracts people with latent nazi tendencies.
This would be all over the news if Bush were pres. Since it’s bam, it’s suppressed by the sycophant press.
You bet he should, tweet and talk about it at rallies. This is what your BIg Brother gov’t of the Smart People gets us.
If the citizen had just unconditionally complied with orders from the authorities there would have been little problem.
Traveling around, my observation of the quality of people that are TSA agents: The cottage cheese of the crop.
OMG!!!!!
She could have been a terrorist, right? They had no way of knowing, right? They did what they had to do, right?
,,,,,, the TSA sure showed them who’s boss ,,, They must feel very proud .
Heartbreaking.
Your post required a sarcasm tag - /s.
Seriously.
I hope President Trump immediately dissolves the TSA.
This is a real lawsuit, not one where a Muslim is offended because someone reported his fake bomb at school.
No dogs were injured in this report...
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