Originally Posted by
amanuensis
While I am not excusing what the TSO and the airport police did, I feel that I need to point out the obvious -- that if the C4L activist had simply answered the screener's question about the cash, no escalation would have ocurred.
The screener should never have even asked the question. That is the whole point here. Mr Bierfeldt was under no obligation to answer a question regarding a non-security threat to a person that had no business asking it.