For sure stupidity and incompetence, this incident involving the TSA and a disabled teenage girl suffering from brain cancer who was savagely thrown to the floor when she became confused about a metal detector going off, can't be beat.
Why these bullies weren't thrown in jail is a mystery.
Seventeen year old Hannah Cohen was preparing to fly from Memphis to her home in Chattanooga with her parents last year. Hannah was going home following her annual treatments at St. Jude hospital for brain cancer.
When she passed through the metal detectors setting off an alarm, what happened next will make your blood boil.
Her years of treatment left the teenager partially deaf, blind in one eye, and limited in her abilities to walk and talk. She also, according to her mother, can become easily confused.
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].
Security personnel arrested Hannah (though all charges against her were later dropped), and what should have been a night of celebration with family and friends because a night of terror and confusion in a jail cell.
A year later, the family is suing the airport, its police, and the TSA for damages, including medical expenses and emotional injuries. According to the lawsuit, they are asking for a "reasonable sum not exceeding $100,000 and costs."
What brave TSA agents we have. Did they give a medal to the hero who threw the little girl to the ground and busted her head open?
How dysfunctional is the TSA? For starters, turnover is so high that they are hiring unqualified and poorly trained agents. If beefy federal agents can't safely subdue a tiny 17 year old girl, what would happen if an ISIS suicide bomber was trying to get through the metal detector?
Secondly, management is deficient and incompetent. How is it possible that these trained apes were put on the front line of security at a busy airport?
But the major problem with the TSA is a culture of unaccountability. This was TSA's response to requests for comment on the incident:
The defendants declined to comment, while TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz noted in a statement that "passengers can call ahead of time to learn more about the screening process for their particular needs or medical situation."
Yes...they went there. They blamed the victim and her family for not calling ahead before they tried to board the plane.
Incidents like this will spur calls to privatize airport security. But Democrats will have none of if since the union representing TSA employees has become powerful and influential in Washington.
I hope the family prevails in court and sues the siht out of the TSA and all others involved in the savage beating of a disabled teen.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
I may have mentioned that the only (thankfully former) TSA agent I have ever known is a certified paranoid schizophrenic. I don't know how he ever got the job. I would have thought the TSA would have thoroughly vetted anyone who applied well before hiring them. It makes me wonder how many more TSA agents have similar issues?
A friend of Doc's, one of only two B-29 bombers still flying.
You ought to see some of the people that work for the DOC (Have an idea the TSA gets some of them ) now in response to the query about the reaction to An ISIS critter ,more then likely ,soiled drawers .
A clear look at the TSA procedures with incoming passengers and one will see that it is all theater--a planned scripted play to persuade the audience that something important is happening to ensure their safety.
It is all smoke and mirrors with a horrendous cost/benefit ratio. Thus when these actors are informed by their stage director that they are expected to have an actual impact on passenger safety, when they see what a real terrorist attack is, such as recently in Turkey, they individually panic because they know from daily experience that their personal training and equipment is just a tissue of stage props.
Just want to question why we are first hearing about all this now, when according to the article this took place "last year" (a little digging determined the incident occured almost exactly one year ago on June 30, 2015)? Sure, the lawsuit was filed within the past couple of days, but this sort of egregious conduct and down-right abuse should have been trumpeted through the media long before this. -"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?
