With all due respect rightwinger, the family had made it thru the screening. This is when the agent decided to target them.
And if you read the update I posted the TSA even agrees the child should not have been threatened with a pat down and has apologized.
The parents handled the situation quite well. Calm as can be. The father is a lawyer and I find that their complaint was reasonable.
This was not a situation where the parents were hysterical. Not at all.
No they didn't . You know how reasonable people handle that?
They get through it, they console their child, they go to Disney World,, where I GUARANTEE the child will forget all about the incident, and they go on about their lives.
They don't whip out a video camera and then go to the press and holler about being a lawyer and demand an apology.
And let their kid be man handled by an idiot in a blue shirt? I don't think so. They had a right to object and a right to film everything that went on.
I suppose I would need to see a complete video/account of the situation. It sounds like since the family had passed security clearance--I think that has been stated several times that something went wrong when the TSA agent decided the wheelchair needed an additional scan.
Maybe the parents had traveled enough and never had this experience before or the manner in which they were informed of the policy was officious. Frankly, I cannot guess.
They don't appear to be the type of people who wanted to create a drama for the sake of creating drama. The individual who wrote the article gathered facts and one of the facts was that the father is an attorney. If he is informed on legal issues relevant to handicapped citizens then it doesn't seem unreasonable that he would respond in a protective manner.
eta: from another article another small piece of fyi--
“They treated [Lucy] like a criminal,” the toddler's dad, an attorney who works with the elderly and disabled, said in an interview with Fox News. “And by extension they were treating us as criminals.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...ly-wheelchair-3-year-old-video_n_2733448.html
The Forck family says they don't plan on taking legal action against the TSA and insist that they don't want the agents responsible to lose their jobs. Instead, Lucy's parents say they hope that by sharing their experience, they will encourage others to speak up if they feel their rights are being impinged upon by TSA agents.
The family also told ABC News that they hope agents will receive more training to prevent incidents that like this from happening again.
I would think that it wouldn't be too difficult to provide some sort of training that would enable TSA agents to reassure children and others with special needs. Maybe they do and some employees need further training. That is about all I can gather from this.
Was it this past December that 2 elderly women were absolutely humiliated during a search? One had had a mastectomy and there was some policy that the prothesis had to be scanned? That is really going too far. If the family was aware of similar experiences then I have to conclude they were correct in expressing their concerns. Whatever went on the child was upset and there was no need for that.
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