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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,650 posts)
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:24 PM May 2019

Diana Ross Says She Feels "Violated" After Incident With TSA

Diana Ross is claiming in a series of early-morning tweets on Sunday that a Transportation Security Administration agent made her feel "violated" at an airport in New Orleans.

The 12-time Grammy nominated singer wrote that she was treated "like royalty" while she was in the city to perform at the Jazz and Heritage Festival this weekend, but at the airport she was "treated like s---."

"Let me be clear , Not the peiple [sic] or Delta BUT TSA , was over the top !! Makes me want to cry," she wrote.

In a subsequent tweet, she explained the incident. "Its not what was done but how , I am feeling violated - I still feel her hands between my legs , front and back ( saying to me it her job ,) WOW!!" she wrote.

"Really mixed emotions," she added. "I always like to see the good things but not feeling good right now."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/celebrity/diana-ross-says-she-feels-violated-after-incident-with-tsa/ar-AAAW1GZ?li=BBnbfcL

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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
3. In London she assaulted a security officer and was briefly arrested
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:39 PM
May 2019
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1999-09-22-9909230107-story.html

Singer Diana Ross was arrested Wednesday at Heathrow Airport after allegedly assaulting a security officer. She was released in the afternoon, walking out of the Heathrow police station through a mob of reporters.



Seems to happen to her a lot.

Hekate

(90,497 posts)
2. Welcome to the club, Ms. Ross. A lot of women and children know how you feel. ...
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:31 PM
May 2019

TSA is incompetent, counterproductive, and contributes to making flying a nightmare.

oregonjen

(3,330 posts)
4. A friend of mine just got searched last week after her pad she was wearing triggered it
Sun May 5, 2019, 08:40 PM
May 2019

She felt completely violated, not only was she having to travel for business while dealing with cramps and not feeling 100%, her pad she was wearing triggered a full body search.

Red Mountain

(1,725 posts)
6. Diana Ross?
Sun May 5, 2019, 09:01 PM
May 2019

Really? That is a fucking stupid waste of time.

Whatever algorithm suggested she be searched down to the skin needs work.

It isn't the way the next plane will be downed anyway.

Because we are already looking for it.

Hamlette

(15,406 posts)
10. I get the pat down 90% of the time I fly
Mon May 6, 2019, 02:49 AM
May 2019

it's yucky, and it is just as she described. shrug

I have metal parts so I set of the alarm.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,314 posts)
11. Good to hear she's still alive.
Mon May 6, 2019, 06:13 AM
May 2019

And good to hear N.O. treated her like royalty.

Diana, welcome to being treated like us ordinary peasants.

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