With Jackson still sitting in my lap (he was being so good despite all of this chaos) I said ok and continued to hold on to my son, expecting the male TSA agent to start touching Jackson.
He then told me, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
I rolled my eyes and sternly told him “It’s his pacifier clip that went off, can’t you just run that back through the belt and let us go. We are going to miss our flight.”
The female TSA agent, who had been standing there the entire time said to me, “You need to adjust your attitude and do as you are told.”
The male TSA agent repeated, “I’m going to have to pick him up to inspect him.”
I handed him my son.
I handed him my son and he walked away with my child.
My eyes welled up with tears, I stood up from my chair and I asked the female TSA agent, “Where is he going? Where is he taking my child? Why is he leaving?”
Read the whole pathetic story.
Found by Jalen Jade via Twitter.
I made the mistake, once, of sending my toddler first through the metal detector before her mom and me.
Then, I set the detector off and they pulled me back. My daughter was panicked and on the verge of tears but the TSA people held her, not letting her come to me or her mother.
After that, we always had her come through between us. I’m not sure how single parents do it.
This is a completely false report as you can see from this video released by TSA.
The baby was never in the arms of the TSA. The baby was either in the stroller or in the arms of his mother.
My disabled severely traumatized daughter was separated from us (her family) AND her service animal. We won’t be able to fly for probably a year now — it will take us this long to desensitize her to the trauma from the TSA agents who re-traumatized her. Full story here:
http://inciid.blogspot.com/2010/08/tsa-violates-10-year-old-child-at.html