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Old Nov 19, 2011 | 3:24 pm
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ScatterX
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Originally Posted by goalie
While I don't like the gate searches, once you have passed muster, you are "free to go" and cannot be told that you must be kept segregated as that is a detention and TSO's have no power to detain and only a LEO can detain and TSO's are not LEO's.
I agree. If this had happened to me (I just witnessed it), I would have made a pretty big stink and given them the "am I free to leave" rigamarole.

Originally Posted by RatherBeOnATrain
Was it a DCA-bound flight?
Nope. To ORD.
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