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Toddler Terrorist: TSA threatens lockdown over 4-year-old girl

Published time: April 24, 2012 17:49
Edited time: April 24, 2012 21:50
Meet Isabella Brademeyer: the 4 year-old, 'gun-smuggling high security threat' (photo/Facebook)

The much-maligned Transport Security Authority (TSA) is once again in hot water after it accused an innocent four-year-old girl of attempted gun smuggling as she hugged her grandmother in the security zone.

­In a Facebook post that has since gone viral, Michelle Brademeyer describes the story of her family being detained as potential terrorists by the TSA on a flight out of Wichita, Kansas. The TSA is responsible for screening passengers as they board and disembark from planes.

Brademeyer was passing through security checks with her mother and her small daughter, Isabella. When the older lady triggered the metal detector, and was told to go for a pat-down, Isabella ran over to and briefly hugged her grandmother.

The TSA immediately said Isabella would now also have to undergo a pat-down, in case the grandmother passed contraband to her during the hug.

When the child shouted “I don’t want to,” the TSA declared Isabella a “high security threat,” and said that they would close down the airport if she moved.

Afterwards, the by-now-hysterical four-year-old was taken to a separate room, and told to stop crying. When she could not, the officers called for backup – saying “the suspect is not cooperating.”

Once the girl calmed down enough to be patted down, Brademeyer claims the transport police repeatedly stated that the girl might be carrying a weapon, as they had previously “seen a gun in a teddy bear.”

Neither the grandmother, nor the child had anything illegal on their person.

Eventually, Isabella and the rest of her family were allowed to board the flight.

The TSA has not questioned Brademeyer’s version of events, but refuses to apologize.

TSA has reviewed the incident and determined that our officers followed proper current screening procedures in conducting a modified pat-down on the child,” said an official statement.

Recent controversial TSA security procedures have included patting down a wheelchair-bound boy, making a woman with a “cute figure” repeatedly go through the body scanner, and forcing a mother to produce a bottle of her breast milk for inspection, before allowing her breast pump onboard.

Brademeyer’s Facebook page has been flooded with hundreds of comments of support from outraged passengers who also claim to have suffered at the hands of over-zealous TSA agents.

Comments (48)

Is that? (unregistered) 18.10.2012 01:06

Is that public child molestation?

Maybe in the near future they will allow public rape of all ages to occur at Airports all over the world. Cameras and all.

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Your papers, please (unregistered) 16.05.2012 21:03

Gerard1971 wrote in #6 Maybe some of you haven't heard, but there are these guys we call terrorists, and they actually (you're gonna love this) try to blow up planes with stuff like underwear and shoe bombs... yeah I know, sounds crazy doesn't it. Well it's the TSA's job to try to find these guys before they actually, you know, blow up a plane or something. So when anyone who's already been cleared through and airport check point comes in contact with someone who hasn't, they MAY THINK the "dirty" person might be trying to pass something through without being checked. In this case, they might have thought the gramdma had exploding adult diapers or something. Now of course this is all theoretical and far fetched, but when something like this does happen, the TSA agents who cleared the terrorist might lets say ... lose their jobs or something and that's why they check little kids as well as really old people and eveyone else at airport security checks.  Oh we've heard, Gerard. Just as we've heard tell of an unthinking class of boob who makes snarky comments that belie his fear that the system he believes in (and will do anything to conform to) isn't a more thoughtful person's cup of tea, and that those evil people that think about things will ruin your wholly artificial little world all to pieces.  This nation at one time may have had a sane foreign policy, but it can't have been in my lifetime (or my parents, or their parents), since it's done nothing but drag its citizens into one insane, often fratricidal conflict after another for the sake of making the world safe for the banking families.  Only thoroughly despised governments ever use such measures as the TSA against it's own citizens. And little wonder, I guess, that the "techniques" in place in the U.S. airports mirror those of that Sitty Lil Ally(??) of ours in the (un)Holy Land. Will you also snuggle up to the idea of checkpoints when traveling by car state-to-state, or even city-to-city?  It' s obvious that things are going too well for you-it might serve you well to develop a little perspective. Because it will occur to you one day that our masters have as little use for you as it does for those folks that think about things.  

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Gerard1971 15.05.2012 22:38

Maybe some of you haven't heard, but there are these guys we call terrorists, and they actually (you're gonna love this) try to blow up planes with stuff like underwear and shoe bombs... yeah I know, sounds crazy doesn't it. Well it's the TSA's job to try to find these guys before they actually, you know, blow up a plane or something. So when anyone who's already been cleared through and airport check point comes in contact with someone who hasn't, they MAY THINK the "dirty" person might be trying to pass something through without being checked. In this case, they might have thought the gramdma had exploding adult diapers or something. Now of course this is all theoretical and far fetched, but when something like this does happen, the TSA agents who cleared the terrorist might lets say ... lose their jobs or something and that's why they check little kids as well as really old people and eveyone else at airport security checks.

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