TSA pats down 4-year-old after she hugs grandmother

[Optimus]

TSA pats down 4-year-old after she hugs grandmother

By Rebecca Ruiz, Senior editor, msnbc.com

A 4-year-old girl was patted down recently by Transportation Security Officers (TSO) at a Wichita, Kan., airport after she embraced her grandmother at the security checkpoint.

Michelle Brademeyer, the girl's mother, wrote about the incident on her Facebook page last week. She said the trouble began when her daughter, Isabel, successfully passed through security, but then ran to hug her grandmother, who had triggered an alarm and had been asked to sit and await a pat-down.

"The Transportation Security Officers who were present responded to this very simple action in the worst way imaginable," Brademeyer wrote.
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Brademeyer said that a TSO began yelling at her daughter, would not permit her to pass through the scanner again and said that a pat-down was necessary. Isabel, according to her mother, was wearing Mary Jane shoes, a short-sleeve shirt and leggings that did not have pockets.

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[Valerius]

Why does America still put up with this nonsense?

[resist.tyranny]

They've been lobotomized.  Thing is that will only go so far.  When the BS meter redlines--lookout--that's when the shooting war starts.