TSA Strikes Yet Again... Mom: "TSA Treated My 4-year-old Like a Terrorist" - Polidicks

Source: [url]http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/mom-tsa-treated-my-4-year-old-like-a-terrorist.html[/url] [quote] A Montana lawmaker is furious after the four year old daughter of one of his constituents was labeled a “high security threat” when the child hugged her grandmother at a security checkpoint at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. Michelle Brademeyer, of Missoula, Mon., wrote about the incident on her Facebook page alleging TSA officers called for backup after her daughter would not stop crying and at one point was ordered to spread her legs. Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT) told Fox News that he is outraged over the four-year-old’s treatment. “Something is clearly very wrong if TSA’s protocol forced them to harass a four-year-old girl until she cried,” Rehberg said. “I intend to sit down with the TSA immediately and demand some answers.” The TSA confirmed to Fox News that an incident occurred at the airport — but defended the way their officers handled the situation. “TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper current screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child,” said Sterling Payne, of the TSA Office of Public Affairs. The Brademeyer family’s ordeal began at Wichita Mid-Continent Airport after they had cleared a security checkpoint. Brademeyer’s mother, who happened to be traveling out of the same airport, set off an alarm and had to be re-screened. photo from Michelle Brademeyer's Facebook page Brademeyer’s four year old child was so excited to see her grandmother that she ran over to give her a brief hug. At that point, a TSA officer began yelling at the child and demanded she sit down and undergo a full body pat-down. “It was implied, several times, that my mother, in their brief two-second embrace, had passed a handgun to my daughter,” Brademeyer wrote on her Facebook page. She said her daughter was terrified. “They told her she had to come to them, alone, and spread her arms and legs,” Brademeyer wrote, noting that her daughter began screaming “No, I don’t want to.” “That is when a TSO told me they would shut down the entire airport, cancel all flights, if my daughter was not restrained,” she wrote. “It was then they declared my daughter a ‘high-security threat.’” Brademeyer said she tried to pick up her daughter and comfort her but the TSA ordered her to stop. They were eventually escorted to a private room where she said her daughter was treated like a terrorist. “I will never forget the look of pure terror on her face,” she said. “A TSO began repeating that in the past she had ‘seen a gun in a teddy bear.’ The TSO seemed utterly convinced my child was concealing a weapon, as if there was no question about it.” However, the TSA disputes Brademeyer’s claim that officers thought her child had a gun. “TSA officers did not suspect or suggest the child was carrying a firearm,” Sterling said in his statement to Fox News. At some point her daughter started crying again and that enraged TSA officers, she said. They ordered her to stop weeping and when she refused, the TSA called for backup. “Two TSOs called for backup saying, ‘The suspect is not cooperating.’ the suspect, of course, being a frightened child. They treated my daughter no better than if she had been a terrorist.” Eventually, a manager intervened and determined the child could be cleared through security after the harrowing ordeal. “My daughter is very shaken up about this, and has been waking up with nightmares,” Brademeyer wrote. “What should have been a very minor, routine security check was turned into a horrific ordeal. All of this could easily have been prevented if the TSO involved had used a little bit of compassion and a smidgen of common sense. There is no reason for any child to go through this. “And while I completely understand the necessity of tight airport security, I fail to see how harassing a small child will provide safety for anyone,” she wrote. Rehberg blamed the debacle on the Obama Administration, saying they have “ignored common sense in favor of mind-boggling bureaucratic rules.” “Common sense tells you there’s a way to protect air travelers without harassing and scaring them,” he said. But he TSA remains steadfast that they did absolutely nothing wrong. “TSA has recently implemented modified screening procedures of children 12 and under that will further reduce the need for a physical pat-down for children,” Sterling said. “These new screening procedures include permitting multiple passes through the metal detector and advanced imaging technology to clear any alarms as well as the greater use of explosives trace detection. These changes in protocol will ultimately reduce – though not eliminate – pat downs of children.” “In this case, however, the child had completed screening but had contact with another member of her family had not completed the screening process,” he added. [/quote] Seriously TSA, what the fuck.

With great power comes great douchebaggery.

[QUOTE=V12US;35709562]With great power comes great douchebaggery.[/QUOTE] So the TSA are basically massive in real life trolls? I can go with that.

I have no compassion for anyone who get's buggered by the TSA. You harvest what you sow.

[QUOTE=Isuzu;35709690]I have no compassion for anyone who get's buggered by the TSA. You harvest what you sow.[/QUOTE] I know right? 4 year old kids showing compassion on public? Outrageous. She should be glad TSA isn't army. She would get shot on the spot.

[QUOTE=Isuzu;35709690]I have no compassion for anyone who get's buggered by the TSA. You harvest what you sow.[/QUOTE]I have no compassion for anyone who's getting buggered by the government either. You harvest what you sow. Actually I have no compassion for anything, because everyone controls outcome of all events, including the ones they have no control over.

if you get so riled up about it, why don't you put an end to it.

[QUOTE=Isuzu;35709922]if you get so riled up about it, why don't you put an end to it.[/QUOTE] Because suicide is not a solution.

[QUOTE=AceOfDivine;35709963]Because suicide is not a solution.[/QUOTE] Is that the last from of protest left in america nowadays?

Watch out she might be hiding a bomb in her diaper!

[QUOTE=Jackald;35709683]My friend forgot he had bought a small pocket knife as a souvenir in his hand luggage when I was in America, complete with the packaging. Took like 25 minutes of interrogation (with the remaining 20 or so of us waiting for him) for them to decide he wasn't a terrorist. to top it all off, one when we finally got through, one of the TSA guys came over and gave him the packaging :v:[/QUOTE] That's actually a pretty good reason to be detained.

[QUOTE=Isuzu;35709690]I have no compassion for anyone who get's buggered by the TSA. You harvest what you sow.[/QUOTE] They accused the grandmother of passing a handgun to the [I]4 year old.[/I] She had no pockets, was wearing skintight stockings/leggings/whatevers, a small shirt, and small shoes. There was no place to hide a weapon of [I]any[/I] kind and to add to it they thought all this had happened in the 2 seconds of contact that she had with her grandmother. So to respond to it they yelled at the child and ordered her to comply to a patdown. Not wanting to be felt up by stranger-dangers, she yelled and went in the other direction (Good girl by the way, don't let strangers touch you). SO then they threatened to shut down the entire airport and labled her a "high security threat". They treated her as if she was not only a tool OF a terrorist plot, but as if she was IN ON said plot. Yeah its totally her fault, the TSA did everything right here.

They could have handled it better but I don't blame them for being worried. The grandmother set off the security alarm and the little girl ran up and made physical contact with her before she could be re-screened. So they didn't know if the grandmother was trying to use the kid to pass something through the security scanner. I'm not going to defend how the TSA handled the situation after that but it was entirely reasonable for them to at least run a quick check to make sure the grandmother didn't pass anything to her.

[QUOTE=Noble;35710305]They could have handled it better but I don't blame them for being worried. The grandmother set off the security alarm and the little girl ran up and made physical contact with her before she could be re-screened. So they didn't know if the grandmother was trying to use the kid to pass something through the security scanner. I'm not going to defend how the TSA handled the situation after that but it was entirely reasonable for them to at least run a quick check to make sure the grandmother didn't pass anything to her.[/QUOTE] Oh absolutely. There is a risk there, I agree. But yes, their handling of the situation was absolutely absurd.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;35710166]They accused the grandmother of passing a handgun to the [I]4 year old.[/I] She had no pockets, was wearing skintight stockings/leggings/whatevers, a small shirt, and small shoes. There was no place to hide a weapon of [I]any[/I] kind and to add to it they thought all this had happened in the 2 seconds of contact that she had with her grandmother. So to respond to it they yelled at the child and ordered her to comply to a patdown. Not wanting to be felt up by stranger-dangers, she yelled and went in the other direction (Good girl by the way, don't let strangers touch you). SO then they threatened to shut down the entire airport and labled her a "high security threat". They treated her as if she was not only a tool OF a terrorist plot, but as if she was IN ON said plot. Yeah its totally her fault, the TSA did everything right here.[/QUOTE] You misunderstood my post. I'm not supportive of the TSA. I am sick and tired of hearing everyone cry and moan about something they allowed and continue allowing to exist.