Mother harassed over breast milk screening

Because she did not want her pumped breast milk to pass through X-Ray machines, she was held in the "special inspection area" for 40 minutes.  The week before she had refused (under published TSA rules) to allow her breast milk to be X-Rayed.

"All the same TSA parties were present from the week before surrounded me . I was demanding an explanation and wanted to speak with the manager but was refused. I was told to be quiet and do as I was told or I wasn’t going anywhere. I felt like a caged animal, stared at by multiple TSA agents and other travelers. After 15 or 20 minutes, my anger turned to tears. I couldn’t stop crying. I felt harassed, degraded, violated, falsely imprisoned, and retaliated against.

Finally, three Phoenix police department officers came. One … came in to tell me that I needed to calm down or TSA could have me arrested. He instructed me to go through alternate gates for security on my following trips because they seemed to have it out for me. He said these TSA agents saw me coming, remembered me from the week before, and wanted me to play along with their ‘horse and pony’ show or they would have me arrested."     [TSA Abuse Blog]

 

She is now in the process of filing suit.