US woman claims airport pat down was more ‘fondling’ than ‘frisking’
March 28th, 2011 - 5:41 pm ICT by ANINew York, Mar 28 (ANI): A woman in the US, who was left humiliated during an airport security pat down, has claimed that it felt more like fondling than frisking.
Nancy Campbell, 33, an urban planner from Brooklyn, was frisked at La Guardia Airport last week, and she said she was left traumatized by a touchy-feely female TSA agent before her flight to Washington.
“If I had been physically attacked, this would have been a very, very similar experience,” the New York Post quoted her as saying.
Campbell had already cleared security and was approaching the gate when the young agent stopped her, told her to drop her stuff and demanded she stand spread-eagled.
As passers-by gawked, the TSA agent patted Campbell down, touching her breasts, inner thighs and crotch, and when she protested, the agent issued an ultimatum.
“You can either continue on flailing about, or you can let me do my job. If you don’t, you can’t fly,” the agent said.
Campbell was in tears when she boarded her plane after the three-minute ordeal, and said that she was never asked to step through a scanner.
Christopher Calabrese, legislative counsel for the ACLU, said putting passengers through enhanced pat-downs after they’ve already cleared security is “very, very strange”. (ANI)
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