I asked the police officer to film this so I can send to @TSA. I'm hoping my humiliation will fix the system. #TSAVaginaMonologues pic.twitter.com/lypkkcpZCW
— a. rye (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016
Staunch Democrat and CNN Political pundit Angela Rye posted footage of an uncomfortable encounter with a TSA agent Dec. 15, sparking a social media discussion about invasive searches while flying.
In the short 1-minute clip, Rye can be seen being examined by a female TSA agent. The woman patted down Rye’s hair, arms and waist while slowly moving down the back of her body to clear Rye for boarding.
“I fly several times a week and this has never happened, so it’s alarming,” Rye says. “But I hope you can understand … that it was alarming.”
The agent then turned her attention to the front of Rye’s body and began the process once more. But this time, she paid a little too much attention to Rye’s private area, patting her twice near her genitals.
While the agent aggressively searched Rye, the officer filming the incident tried to console the commentator, telling her that he was searched in a similar fashion recently. Rye did not respond.
Rye told her follows what happened using the hashtag TSAVaginaMonologues.
It was my vagina. Not almost. It happened twice. https://t.co/JMkt9kQL8w
— a. rye (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016
According to Rye, the incident started when the advance imaging technology (AIT) flagged her private region.
1. Metal detector and AIT (same thing). The AIT is what flagged my vag. I repeatedly refused a vaginal pat down. So they called police. https://t.co/fFtjbXW9H4
— a. rye (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016
2. Even offered to go back through AIT. They told me to get the pat down or be escorted out by police.
— a. rye (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016
3. Instead, the officer recorded TSA's pat down and offered to file an incident report when it was finished.
— a. rye (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016
4. What she explained she would do in "back hand" pat down and the actual vaginal chop that occurred were diff. I would've preferred neither
— a. rye (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016
