While we all (well most of us) can take issue with how the TSA handled the situation...

I'm a bit more concerned in how the police handled it. They walked up and immediately put him in handcuffs and walked him out of the checkpoint / view of the camera. There was one TSA person who appears to talk to them as they are arriving, but they never stop walking until they get to him and start to place him in handcuffs. And as soon as that is done, they walk him out.

I suppose they could have been observing just off camera, but it would appear that the TSA called them in from somewhere else and they had just arrived when they appear on camera.

...let me guess... it was done "for [the passenger's] and the [officer's] protection", right?



Edited to add:

Then again, this is the same airport that noted on official police reports an "irate" senator and an out-of-control mother. (A police force that all but admitted it violated a woman's first amendment rights.) I guess I'm glad to know I haven't just written it off as "well that's how it works at that airport". Appears to me, some housecleaning needs to occur there.