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Old Jun 18, 2012 | 1:44 pm
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T-the-B
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Originally Posted by TSORon

Threatened? TSO’s don’t have arrest powers, so it was not the TSA threatening you. . . . Now a LEO has arrest powers, maybe they were the one’s threatening to arrest you.
I suspect that TSORon is ignorant of the fact that many TSA screeners do, in fact, threaten to have passengers arrested.

TSORon is certainly correct, in theory, that TSA would not threaten arrest. However, in practice, it happens all the time.
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