Originally Posted by
nbs2
Two questions:
1) How would a LEO asking "Are you ok?" be escalating? I haven't seen any call for detention while the LEO shows up. After all, don't families take about 2.5 hours to get resettled after going through security?
2) Is a crying child a weapon, explosive, or incendiary?
Isn't it rather obvious that the travellers in the original post would have had to have been detained until an LEO could arrive? A sensitive child might then be very intimidated waiting for the LEO and then further intimidated when confronted by the "real" policeman, might they not?
(At security Friday night and Saturday morning in Terminal B at IAH, I do not recall seeing an LEO in the screening area or at the terminal.)
Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
Oh, please. "Girl crying in airport" is not a sign of child abuse.
"Oh, please." how do you know a few tears, which it appears you are implying, was the only reason for the concern? To paraphrase a line from Shakespeare, "methinks the TSA haters doth protest too much."
Originally Posted by
doober
Screeners have been told not to do CPR on someone who might be having a heart attack; do you think TSA is going to be happy with a screener who steps away from his job because he thinks a child might be being kidnapped or abused?
Further supporting my earlier comments that I find it difficult to conceive of a TSA representative subjecting THEMSELVES to the second guessing that would occur by questioning child abuse of a few tears. I suspect that the TSA representative in question may have just as likely been supported by their colleagues as questioned by them.