I came across an interesting article and video today on Wired that claims that a distraught female passenger (and former TSA agent) was on her way to her brother’s funeral and was charged with battery for groping a TSA agent after allegedly previously being inappropriately groped during a security screening.
The woman never made it to her brother’s funeral; instead, she was put in jail and faces charges for the incident.
Take a look at the original video and news article here. I’m curious to hear your take on this incident. Do you think the female passenger is guilty of the battery charges against her? Discuss your thoughts in the comments below.
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Wow, bizarre news. I don’t know if she’s guilty or not. But one thing’s for sure, groping back is illegal I think?
Well, I said she definitely did a very theatrical reenactment by cc(credit-card)-swiping the tsa agent, but I have a strong feeling that what instigated that incident was far worse….
So I’m saying, not guilty, though I saw the the news reel with the video clip of what the passenger did; which they apparently felt the need to show several times, as if they were trying to reassure themselves, or the people watching…
You know that they(the airport and tsa and whom-ever else), with-out a doubt, have to have the lady passenger’s pat-down/search on video; so why wasn’t that section of video-clip shown as well?…
Is the reason for not showing the clip that it was lost, or being investigated, or something along those lines; they ‘didn’t want to violate the passenger’s privacy more’ or something else lubricious.
Makes you wonder why the tsa agent’s video clip also wasn’t shown… Shouldn’t it be investigated as well? Wasn’t the tsa agent’s privacy violated showing her video ‘attack’?…. Maybe the passenger was groped more inappropriately than they ever want us to actually know…
What we, the general public, see, hear, and are informed with are some truths, some half-truths, some lies and then there’s the stuff that we never hear about…
All that being said, I believe that the passenger’s charges against her should be dropped….
She may have reacted more extremely than is considered acceptable for daily norm… But if my brother had just died, I was flying to his funeral, and then I was searched at a busy airport and groped in an invasive/inappropriate fashion I would be a handful to say the least… That would be stress-overload for anyone.
She is a former TSA employee who worked at that airport and she groped her former boss who is the supervisor, and with whom she never got along!
Sounds to me that she got what she deserved,Jail
Considering the fact that calling the police was very much a subjective decision based upon- in this case – how the supervisor felt after the fact and then subsequently possible prosecution/jail based upon other subjective decisions than I would have to agree with Jennifer and ask the question of why the total clip was not played. Everything has to be taken in context especially if the context was purposely taken out. Otherwise us as consumers and educated decision makers become much less than we should be- decision makers based upon choices we are given. I would rather see the other clip before making my decision however if my decision was to be made prematurely I would choose not guilty over the simple fact that we cannot see the complete video. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and in this case TSA + Media = Absolute power. She should have went on her way to her brothers funeral. Shame on you TSA.
The TSA has got to go.
Any unwanted physical contact is battery and it occurs under conditions of duress.
9/11 did not invalidate or modify the Constitution or Bill of Rights.