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micdotcom:
CNN commentator Angela Rye shares “humiliating” TSA experience on Twitter
On Thursday, Angela Rye shared a video of her experience being “randomly selected” for a full-body search at Detroit Metropolitan Airport by the TSA.
The video — which Rye says she asked a police officer to film — shows a TSA agent patting down Rye’s hair, shoulders, arms, back and torso.
The agent then moves toward her genitals, at which point the agent lifts up the hem of Rye’s dress to search her upper thighs and crotch.
In a phone interview Friday, Rye said even after clearing two security scanners — “I didn’t beep,” she clarified in a later tweet — she was still selected for random screening when the scanner lit up around her crotch.
A glance at the #TSAVaginaMonologues hashtag reveals Rye’s experience is far from a rare occurrence.
Multiple women attested to triggering body-scan sensors and being subjected to similar searches. Read more
This is fucking sexual assault.
Here’s the insult to the injury: It’s been proven that the TSA doesn’t prevent any attacks. It’s been well documented that the only effect they have is that they make people feel safer without actually contributing to that safety. Their entire job is to make us feel better about flying.
And they use that power to sexually assault us.
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thisiseverydayracism:
micdotcom:
CNN commentator Angela Rye shares “humiliating” TSA experience on Twitter
On Thursday, Angela Rye shared a video of her experience being “randomly selected” for a full-body search at Detroit Metropolitan Airport by the TSA.
The video — which Rye says she asked a police officer to film — shows a TSA agent patting down Rye’s hair, shoulders, arms, back and torso.
The agent then moves toward her genitals, at which point the agent lifts up the hem of Rye’s dress to search her upper thighs and crotch.
In a phone interview Friday, Rye said even after clearing two security scanners — “I didn’t beep,” she clarified in a later tweet — she was still selected for random screening when the scanner lit up around her crotch.
A glance at the #TSAVaginaMonologues hashtag reveals Rye’s experience is far from a rare occurrence.
Multiple women attested to triggering body-scan sensors and being subjected to similar searches. Read more
This is fucking sexual assault.
Here’s the insult to the injury: It’s been proven that the TSA doesn’t prevent any attacks. It’s been well documented that the only effect they have is that they make people feel safer without actually contributing to that safety. Their entire job is to make us feel better about flying.
And they use that power to sexually assault us.
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