Sunday 07-03-16

Big brave TSA agents are at it again, don't usually do a Sunday one, but

Disabled Teen Beaten Bloody by TSA Agents

 

For sure stupidity and incompetence, this incident involving the TSA and a disabled teenage girl suffering from brain cancer who was savagely thrown to the floor when she became confused about a metal detector going off, can't be beat. Why these bullies weren't thrown in jail is a mystery. Seventeen year old Hannah Cohen was preparing to fly from Memphis to her home in Chattanooga with her parents last year. Hannah was going home following her annual treatments at St. Jude hospital for brain cancer. When she passed through the metal detectors setting off an alarm, what happened next will make your blood boil. Her years of treatment left the teenager partially deaf, blind in one eye, and limited ...

                       

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U.S.

Teenage Cancer Patient Was Slammed To The Ground By TSA, Lawsuit Claim        

A new lawsuit against the TSA is accusing airport workers of physically assaulting and injuring a teenage cancer patient, The Guardian reported on Saturday. The lawsuit, which also names Memphis Airport officials, alleges violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act and intentional infliction of emotional distress over a 2015 incident. Hannah Cohen, then 18, was returning home to Chattanooga, TN, from St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. The teenager had been treated for a brain tumor which left her partially blind and deaf, easily confused, and partially paralyzed. Her mother said that the two had made the trip hundreds of times and had the routine down. But this time, when Cohen ...

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Lawsuit: Disabled Woman Injured by Security at Airport      

A lawsuit alleges that a disabled patient from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was injured by security workers at Memphis International Airport. News media outlets report that an alarm went off when 19-year-old Hannah Cohen was going through a security checkpoint on June 30, 2015. The reports say Cohen and her mother were flying home to Chattanooga after receiving treatment at St. Jude. The lawsuit says Cohen "was unable to cooperate with a search" because a brain tumor removal and radiation treatment had limited her ability to talk, walk, stand, see and hear. Cohen's mother, Shirley Cohen, says her daughter was put on the ground and hit her head. The news outlets report that the Memphis ...

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