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It's official: airport security gropings are "assault".(airport security assault common citizens)
Phyllis Dintenfass, an unassuming, 62-year-old retired teacher from Wisconsin, has never committed a crime against persons or property. Yet she faces a year in prison and a $100,000 fine as a result of her collision with a federal official acting on that ideology.
Last September, Mrs. Dintenfass and her husband were passing through security prior to a flight at Appleton's Outagamie County Regional Airport. Since something she wore triggered metal detectors repeatedly, Mrs. Dintenfass was taken to a "secondary screening area" by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor named Anita Gostisha. The would-be passenger meekly complied as Gostisha used an electronic "wand" to scan for metal objects.
Gostisha then used the back of her hands to check the area beneath Dintenfass' breasts, provoking her to "lash out." According to Dintenfass, her reaction was to reciprocate the unwanted and uninvited physical contact while saying, "How would you like it if I did that to you?" Gostisha claims that the middle-aged woman--uniformly described as mild-mannered and inoffensive--also "slammed her ...
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