Sunday night, she slipped outside her hotel and broke her wrist. She was treated at DePaul Hospital and got a cast for her broken bone.

But when she tried to go through security at Lambert Monday morning, a machine detected "explosive residue" on her cast.

“They wanted me to unwrap it and when they got to the thick cast part where my broken arm was just underneath it, then they said I should probably stop, Alerding said. “But there's nothing I can do at that point and they kicked me out.”