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Family Sues TSA for Beating Their Deaf, Blind and Brain Damaged Teen Daughter Bloody at Airport
Daily Sheeple ^ | 7/1/2016 | Melissa Dykes

Posted on 07/02/2016 5:37:04 AM PDT by HomerBohn

Yet another example of an innocent American attempting to travel by plane in the U.S. (Pic: WREG)

It seems people aren’t just suing the TSA for missing their flights these days.

An 18-year-old partially deaf girl, blind in one eye and with limited ability to walk and talk, spent 17 years of her life travelling between Chattanooga and Memphis for treatment of her brain tumor at a children’s hospital. Her last experience returning home from treatment via the Memphis Airport, however, left her beaten, blooded, and locked up in a Shelby County jail like the potential terrorist the TSA thinks she is.

Via Reason:

When Hannah went through the metal detector at the airport, an alarm went off. Disoriented by the noise, she did not immediately cooperate with TSA agents who asked to conduct further screening.

Shirley Cohen tried to inform the agents about her daughter’s disabilities, she told television station WREG, but airport police kept her away. That’s when the situation between Hannah and the TSA officials became violent:

“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 family is suing for a “reasonable sum not exceeding $100,000 and costs.” Reason reports that when asked about it, (an apparently heartless) TSA spokeswoman responded with, “passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation.”

Oh really? Can they call ahead to learn more about how TSA agents have little to no discernment whatsoever between a suspected terrorist and a scared teen with mental and physical disabilities? Can a traveler call to find out just what kind of abuse they are most likely to receive from TSA thugs if they are already unfortunate enough to suffer from a “medical situation” when they are going to fly on a plane?

Versions of this same story come out of airports so often, the nation has sadly gotten used to this open show of innocent Americans being beaten like slaves at airports.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brownshirts; thugculture; tsa; tsaantisemitism; tsarico; tsaviolence; tsavsamerica
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To: surroundedbyblue

I’m with you!

Trump is our last hope to crawl out from under the rubble that was the USA that has been ruined by liberal Republicrats and communist/socialist Democrats!


81 posted on 07/02/2016 8:21:59 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Terry L Smith

Your post is excellent and I am familiar with the background of the late actor Sterling Hayden.


82 posted on 07/02/2016 8:23:17 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: USNBandit

These stupid and overweight TSA asshats need to be shoved off their stools and out the door. Homeland (in)Security, the TSA, the ATF, BLM, DOE, Education, EPA must be eliminated. The states are doing duplicate work, but then the central government people seldom work at all unless its’ to regulate, regulate, regulate.

President Trump: take a meat axe to this bloated, evil monster I call the central socialist government.


83 posted on 07/02/2016 8:26:37 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Labyrinthos

I never thought about that. Thanks! This will save me a great deal of elevated blood pressure episodes.


84 posted on 07/02/2016 8:28:25 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: HomerBohn

Gosh! My older brother! My wife gets very upset when I tell some dumb SOS he or even she is a dumb SOS. I seldom get any satisfaction out of it but at least I feel like I have not meekly just surrendered my dignity and rights. At least that is what I am trying to tell myself.

I usually tell them they have a crummy job and that I’d rather shovel sh_t with a spoon than surrender my dignity and principles to have a job like theirs. I guess that is an insult. My only goal is to make them feel as little, insignificant and wormy as they are. I can’t see why she gets upset.

I’ve never been able to hide my feelings no matter how hard I try. I am equally disdainful of many of my fellow travelers as i am the TSA or just about any other authority.


85 posted on 07/02/2016 8:29:52 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: ZULU

I don’t believe we’d have to go back 250 years, Americans wee beginning to grow a backbone when RWR was president. The backbone atrophied as Bush I wiped out all the good that his predecessor had done.

Down with Democrats, down with RINOs, down with the SCOTUS and down with the agencies of this criminal government.


86 posted on 07/02/2016 8:32:32 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: HomerBohn

The Bushes were as bad as the Clintons. None have ever been as bad as Obama.

They’re all a bunch of globalists. Globalists basically promote redistribution of wealth. That makes them socialists. Socialist is a soft word for commie.


87 posted on 07/02/2016 8:34:43 AM PDT by boycott (--s)
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To: equaviator

Right.

But what about those mean old homophobes? Islamophobes? They want to keep us from shoving our pee-pees up our mate’s poo-poo and getting married. And eating cake. And buying flowers.


88 posted on 07/02/2016 8:39:29 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Sequoyah101

I like what you tell them.

I tell them that the day will come when the government finally comes to the conclusion that they are a redundant class of workers.


89 posted on 07/02/2016 8:43:16 AM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: xp38

My last flight by commercial air was in 1985. It was an aggravating experience back then. Must be a magnitude worse now.


90 posted on 07/02/2016 8:53:38 AM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: DaveA37

Thank you. I travel internationally quite a bit and I haven’t experienced any problems. We’ve got TSA Pre-check and that really speeds things up, but it seems that my wife is always pulled out for additional screening. Even with that it’s always been courteous and professional. We came back through Los Angeles from Singapore in April and the customs agent actually smiled and said “welcome home”. That’s kind of nice after sitting in planes or airports for 20 hours.


91 posted on 07/02/2016 8:56:02 AM PDT by stormer
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To: exit82

Flight free since 1993


92 posted on 07/02/2016 8:58:26 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: HangUpNow

“I happen to notice your subtle defense of the TSA, W, and a certain “psychology” on this thread.”

You only imagined it. I said what I said and that’s all I said.


93 posted on 07/02/2016 9:01:10 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Labyrinthos
I have never had a problem.

She had been doing it for 17 years and never had a problem.

Until she did.

And you will never have a problem.

Until you do.

94 posted on 07/02/2016 9:08:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: HomerBohn
Americans wee beginning to grow a backbone when RWR was president.

The backbone atrophied as Bush I wiped out all the good that his predecessor had done.

Whatever momentum (backbone and balls) we'd began to grow did "atrophy".

I believe Americans got lazy and mistakenly entrusted NWO crusader Poppy Bush to carry on The Gipper's America-First football. As a globalist and blueblood elite (with shady family past and present), Poppy NEVER EVER intended to support Reagan's agenda.

By the time we realized what hit us, the ship had already hit TWO icebergs: His "compassionate conservative" backhanded slap at Reagan and the "Reagan Revolution," and Bush's ridiculous "New World Order" speech after waging the FIRST Iraq war -- supposedly in defense of a Muzzie nation of lazy, sel-entitled millionaires -- Kuwait and its "Mommy" -- Saudi Arabia.

It was THE war that began creating all these insane airport security protocols and inconvenient reductions in our liberties. And let's not forget the wealth-draining perpetual war (aka "quagmire") in Iraq and the ME, thanks to both Globalist-Firsters -- father & son -- that began in 1991. Now 25 years and counting.

95 posted on 07/02/2016 9:08:49 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: relictele
The Stanford Prison Experiment was fake.
96 posted on 07/02/2016 9:09:12 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Labyrinthos

You must have missed the part about her limited ability to walk or talk. Probably limited ability to write as well. I don’t know if you can talk, write your wishes to the TSA agent, or have pre-made cue cards, but this young lady didn’t know the process and had a limited ability to talk. The mother could have done so if they had not prohibited her from approaching the agent beating the teenager.

TSA is pure evil. Nothing but.


97 posted on 07/02/2016 9:10:45 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: HangUpNow

Regarding the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan in March of 1981.....

After seeing the way the scumbags of the GOPe conducted themselves these past six months, I’m starting to wonder if the GOPe masterminded the whole thing assassination plot in order to get rid of Ronald Reagan and put in their globalist dirtbag, George H. W. Bush.

Meanwhile, the Hinckley family and the Bush family knew one another. Hmmmmm.


98 posted on 07/02/2016 9:16:04 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Ban muslims, NOT guns.....Register liberals, NOT guns)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Yep and you can bet that a LOT of them have the attitude they are there to get payback on Whitey. I have no doubt many of them enjoy being as intrusive and annoying as possible to white passengers, slowing them down and causing them stress.


99 posted on 07/02/2016 9:23:55 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: Travis McGee

Had see been wearing a burka she would have gotten a free pass.


100 posted on 07/02/2016 9:24:57 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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