TSA Makes 82-Year-Old Breast Cancer Survivor Remove Her Prostheses
LatestAnd she’s not the only one — there are 26 complaints on behalf of the elderly and people with disabilities who claim to have been abused by TSA agents at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport.
The Arizona Republic was able to find the TSA complaints using the Freedom of Information Act, and some of the stories are absolutely awful. For example, an 82-year-old woman in a wheelchair was going through security on her way to London when the metal detector beeped over her chest. She explained that she has a prosthesis and the TSA agents took some pretty harsh and invasive next steps: