The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has another incident which makes the agency look absolutely foolish. In this incident, the TAS officers suspected a four year old child with a leg brace:
“Security officers at a US airport have come under fire for forcing a disabled boy to remove his leg braces and walk through a checkpoint.
Four-year-old Ryan Thomas was flying from Philadelphia to Disney World in Orlando with his parents Bob and Leona when the incident occurred.”
link: Airport tells child to remove leg braces
This blunder has received international attention. It is a continuing saga of the TSA suspecting children. Mikey Hicks is an eight year old and a Cub Scout. He is on the TSA data base and is body searched whenever he flies. This security focus began for Mikey Hicks when he was two years old.
Catherine Forsythe