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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAppalling TSA assault on a gravely ill disabled teenage girl in Memphis
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/3/1544744/-Appalling-TSA-assault-on-a-gravely-ill-disabled-teenage-girl-in-Memphis19 year old Hannah Cohen was brutalized and arrested by TSA agents at Memphis International Airport last year. On June 30, 2015, the metal detector beeped as she passed through. TSA agents tried to take her aside for secondary screening but when she resisted she was tackled and her head bashed against the floor, leaving her injured and bloodied.
Sadly, such TSA assaultssupposedly to protect us from assaults by "the bad guys"aren't uncommon and we've grown used to the invasions of privacy as well as the risk of triggering a violent confrontation with our so-called protectors every time we need to board a plane. This instance was more of the same, yet there's a twist that should make us all once again take notice and voice our disgust.
Hannah is partially deaf, blind in one eye, partially paralyzed, and was on her way home from treatment for a brain tumor at Memphis' famed center for healing gravely ill young people, St. Jude Children's Hospital. Her mother tried to tell the TSA agents that her daughter is physically and mentally disabled, ill, and didn't understand what they were doing but she was ignored. Instead, they treated this young woman with serious medical conditions as though she was a potential deadly threat and acted as if she was insolently refusing to yield to their authority.
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Watch the video at the WREG link at the top of this story. It's shocking but we can't shy away from acknowledging the abuses that have become all too common in our post-9/11 nation.
(Note: at the link, there is a graphic photo of the injuries inflicted on the young woman during the assault, as taken by her mother)
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Appalling TSA assault on a gravely ill disabled teenage girl in Memphis (Original Post)
Ken Burch
Jul 2016
OP
villager
(26,001 posts)1. Appalling that Obama has declined to "clean house" at the TSA...
...but then, no one from "either" party is really prepared to stand up to the "security" apparatus that has sprung up in our former democracy....
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)2. "a boot stamping on a human face - forever"
We don't have to imagine it anymore.
BadgerKid
(4,559 posts)3. And no mention of her suing? (link)
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)4. Monsters!