The New American
According to a jury in Tennessee, a mother who berated TSA officers over her daughter’s pat down is guilty of “disorderly conduct.”
Fox News reports, “Jurors deliberated four hours before convicting
Andrea Abbott. She had faced up to 30 days in jail and a $50 fine for
her conduct in the July 2011 confrontation at Nashville International
Airport, but the judge placed her on probation for a year because she
has no criminal record.”
At the time of the incident, Abbott was not herself flying, but
accompanying her daughter — then 14 — to the gate at Nashville
International Airport.
Abbott refused to allow her daughter to go through a body scan
machine, asserting she did not want “someone to see our bodies naked.”
Security officer Sabrina Birge told police that "[Abbott] told me in a
very stern voice with quite a bit of attitude that they were not going
through that X-ray." Despite being told that the machine was "not an
x-ray," Abbott insisted, "I still don't want someone to see our bodies
naked."
Abbott and her daughter then went through a metal detector, to be
followed by a pat down conducted by TSA Officer Karen King. According to
King, just before she performed the pat down on Abbott’s daughter,
Abbott yelled in her face that she did not want anyone “touching her
daughter’s crotch.”
Eventually, Abbott permitted her daughter to receive a pat down, but refused to undergo one herself.
It was at that point that airport police officer Jeff Nolen was called.-[Full Article]
