Originally Posted by
saulblum
It is the TSO at the end who basically tells the passenger, "I did not like what you said, and for that, I'm reporting you and not letting you leave the checkpoint." Was it retaliation for his wife not backing down when ordered to stop filming? Maybe.
No maybe about it; cast-iron certainty I'd say. A challenge, any challenge, to "authoritah" must be punished with bluster, pettiness and puffery.