Woman nabbed for resisting pat-down

Authorities at the main airport in the US state of Texas have arrested a woman for refusing to go through an enhanced pat-down.

Claire Hirschkind, 56, says she refused to be frisked at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport because she had a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, reported Huffington Post on its website.

She says she never broke any laws, but the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) disagrees.

Hirschkind was hoping to spend Christmas with friends in California, but she never made it past the security checkpoint.

"I can't go through because I have the equivalent of a pacemaker in me," she said.
Hirschkind said because of the device in her body, she was led to a female TSA employee and three Austin police officers.

She says she was told she was going to be patted down.

"I turned to the police officer and said, 'I have given no due cause to give up my constitutional rights. You can wand me,'" and they said, 'No, you have to do this,'" she said.

Hirschkind agreed to the pat down, but on one condition.

"I told them, 'No, I'm not going to have my breasts felt,' and she said, 'Yes, you are,'" said Hirschkind.

When Hirschkind refused, she says that "the police actually pushed me to the floor, (and) handcuffed me. I was crying by then. They dragged me 25 yards across the floor in front of the whole security."

Meanwhile, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has said invasive pat-downs and full-body scannings will continue at airports around the country.

She said there will be no change in the policy in the foreseeable future.

Source: PressTV.
Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/157353.html.