{"id":669229,"date":"2010-02-18T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002299"},"modified":"2010-02-18T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T21:36:17","slug":"tsa-makes-disabled-child-remove-leg-braces-walk-through-metal-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669229","title":{"rendered":"TSA Makes Disabled Child Remove Leg Braces, Walk Through Metal Detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/securityplaymobile-thumb-652x200-37166.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>The TSA forced a disabled 4-year old to get out of his stroller and remove his leg braces and walk unassisted through the metal director. After the humiliating and frightening  incident, the boy&#8217;s father, a cop, told the supervisor, &#8220;This is overkill. He&#8217;s 4 years old. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s a terrorist.&#8221; The supervisor then said, &#8220;You know why we&#8217;re doing this,&#8221; and walked away, according to the father. It turns out that this didn&#8217;t even follow TSA policy, which would have allowed for the boy to be privately screened and swabbed for explosive material traces, without having to remove his braces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/local\/84368492.html\">Another case of TSA overkill<\/a> [philly]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TSA forced a disabled 4-year old to get out of his stroller and remove his leg braces and walk unassisted through the metal director. After the humiliating and frightening incident, the boy&#8217;s father, a cop, told the supervisor, &#8220;This is overkill. He&#8217;s 4 years old. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s a terrorist.&#8221; The supervisor then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2O61","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}