OMG! TSA Did This To A Half-Blind, Teenage Cancer Patient For Being Confused During A Search
#1 A disabled teenager who was returning home after treatment for a brain tumour,
was left bloodied and traumatised by airport security staff, a lawsuit launched by her family alleges.Hannah Cohen, who is partially deaf, paralysed and blind in one eye, was flying to Chattanooga from Memphis where she had been receiving care in June 2015, when a security alarm went off at an airport checkpoint.
#2 Hannah, who was 18 at the time, became disorientated and confused by the alarm and the security staff’s attempts to search her, the lawsuit claims.
TSA agents began searching her, which, coupled with the alarm and her disability, confused Hannah.
#3 Airport security responded by repeatedly throwing her to the ground.
Hannah was then arrested, but the charges against her were dropped, probably once the TSA realized that they had screwed up royally.
#4 Hannah's family are now seeking $100,000 in medical damages, pain, and public embarrassment.
#5 Her lawyers are making a pretty strong case too:
"The security personnel failed to recognise that she was confused because of her obvious disability and was unable to cooperate with the search."
#6 The TSA says that they aren't going to comment until the lawsuit's been addressed,
but it's hard to imagine that body-slamming a half-blind, half-deaf, female teenage cancer patient is going to look too good for them.
