A mother of four named Jennifer Williamson has shared a video on Facebook that was filmed last Sunday at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
It has been viewed over 5.7 million times and we wish we could say this was due to its hilarious nature.
Instead, however, it"s due to the very disturbing action depicted, as a TSA agent spends over two minutes closely patting down a child with special needs.
“Let me make something crystal clear. He set off NO alarms,” Williamson wrote of her son, Aaron, who suffers from Sensory Processing Disorder and was traumatized by the experience.
“He physically did not alarm at all during screening, he passed through the detector just fine.”
So the young man passed through the main detector, yet was still pulled aside for an extra screening.
That does happen sometimes.
The detector occasionally picks something up in a specific area of one"s clothing and a TSA agent then conducts a quick pat-down to make sure there"s nothing to worry about.
But that"s not what takes place in the following video.
In the following video, this TSA agent runs his hands over and around Aaron"s body, again and again and again.
Williamson went on to say Aaron was detained for “well over an hour,” causing her family to miss its flight and leaving the child confused, even though she requested an alternate screening for her son due to his condition.
“He is still several hours later saying ‘I don’t know what I did. What did I do?’ I am livid,” Williamson shared online.
She added:
“I wish I had taped the entire interchange because it was horrifying. We had two DFW police officers that were called and flanking him on each side.
"Somehow these power-tripping TSA agents who are traumatizing children and doing whatever they feel like without any cause, need to be reined in.”
You may judge the incident for yourself below, but here is what the TSA had to say about the viral footage:
“The video shows a male TSA officer explaining the procedure to the passenger, who fully cooperates. Afterward, the TSA officer was instructed by his supervisor, who was observing, to complete the final step of the screening process.
"In total, the pat-down took approximately two minutes, and was observed by the mother and two police officers who were called to mitigate the concerns of the mother.”
