Colorado Woman Grabs TSA Agent's Breast At Phoenix Airport

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[krazykat88]

"She should face charges," he said. "It's inappropriate for her to do that. These people are just doing their job."

uhhmmmm...what?
SHE could potentially be charged with sexual assault, but when a TSA agent does it, its completely acceptable? does anybody else find that really really fucked up?

The fact that she's a journalist makes me think she might have been doing it on purpose/to make a point, (since she'd know it would get press coverage) on the other hand, maybe she was just having a shitty day.

[flying_pandas]

SHE could potentially be charged with sexual assault, but when a TSA agent does it, its completely acceptable? does anybody else find that really really fucked up?

I'm not going to lie, this was my first reaction as well - but the TSA agent is just doing their job - and it is true that people who fly these days know the procedure.

I don't think she should be sent to jail or made to register as a sex offender, but I do think she was wrong to grope the tsa agent.

[gloraelin]

Dear Sherry Engle: the fact that the security procedures are invasive and assaultive does not excuse assaulting a TSA worker.

Mr Dickman [lolname]: Your first statement is true. The second is bullshit. The rules keep changing and I don't accept those fucked-up rules just because the TSA says I have to submit to security theatre that doesn't even work.

Miyamae: THAT WASN'T SMART. you can make your point without assaulting someone.

[dangerousdame]

Thank you. I wanted to say this, but couldn't figure out how to word it.

[nepthys_12]

MTE

[thevelvetsun]

Exactly this.

[aisasami]

Karma is a bitch.

[sgrios]

Why are we not holding peaceful protests in airports? Sitting in the lobbies, holding signs outside, that sort of thing?

[optimsprm]

Despite that it is our right to protest, I highly doubt it would be allowed and we'd be threatened with arrest.

I'm sorry, I really have no clue what your point is here

[baked_goldfish]

The people who fly often enough to be mad about this are a smaller portion of the population than people who fly less than once a year. The rest of the population probably isn't aware, for the most part, of the intrusion caused by some of these techniques, or of the fact that the techniques do absolutely nothing to increase security.

[tiger0range]

So if you're the one doing it, then you are just doing your job. But if someone else does it to you, then they are a sex offender... right.

[tyndall_blue]

I disagree with TSA patdowns, but it doesn't mean that the agent herself doesn't have a right to be protected against sexual assault. I do not feel that Ms. Yukari should have to register as a sex offender, but charges should be pressed.

[tiger0range]

Do you have any hard proof that people who are subjected to the patdowns have equal protection under the law against sexual assault?

Has there been complaints against TSA for sexual assault? How many of them have been prosecuted?

[chasingtides]

I lodged a formal complaint against a TSA agent who groped me. This was back in '05, to give you a timeline.

The only feedback I got was that ever since lodging the complaint I get to schedule extra time into my flying time because my ticket *always* gets flagged. When I was flying often for medical reasons and kept getting the same agent, he started apologizing and saying "it must be some kind of glitch."