Originally Posted by da_guy
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The TSA's primary job is to look for weapons, yes. But that doesn't mean they are precluded from getting the police involved when they see a crime being commited. A kid showed up with cigarette burns all over his body, discovered by the TSA during a pat down...should they not call the police?
If this woman had been arrested at a Burger King you wouldn;t care less, but the evil bad dirty TSA was involved so it must be wrong.
Firstly, a crime was not being committed. There is no proof a crime was committed, or was about to be - just speculation. It is not a crime to possess or transport currency regardless of what you suspect the person will do with it. It is a crime to buy, sell or transport drugs - let her be caught doing that, and if the search and arrest are constitutional and legal, let her be tried, convicted and imprisoned.
This has little to do with the TSA, as these laws were put on the books when the 9/11 hijackers were still in high school. Anyway, in my opinion, the TSA has no business searching outside their specific scope, which I understand some here disagree with - but there was no crime committed, thus nothing to report, except to claim their 'reward'.
If this happened at Burger King, I would equally outraged, as I have been outraged at these laws since they were enacted.