Hate Crime -ex TSA worker
In all the articles, it is mentioned that he was a former TSA worker. I don't understand if this means he did this while employed and has since left the TSA?
Typical phrasing, "MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 10 (UPI) -- A former Transportation Security Administration employee in Minneapolis pleaded guilty to a hate crime Wednesday in assaulting an elderly Somali man. TSA employees provide security at the nation's airports. The former TSA employee, George Thompson, 64, pleaded guilty in federal court to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/...#ixzz1UgIec1B9 "...Court papers said that Thompson, a former employee of the Transportation Security Administration, attacked his victim on May 4, 2010, because of the man's "actual and perceived religion and national origin." http://www.startribune.com/local/127474763.html "...Court papers say the 64-year-old former employee of the Transportation Security Administration told the older man he was going to kill him and chased him into a Minneapolis street on May 4, 2010. Read more: Ex-TSA Agent Pleads Guilty in Assault on Elderly Somali Man http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/n...#ixzz1UgICbDaS |
Former Baggage TSO
He was a Checked Baggage TSO that was forced into retirement after being accused of these crimes.
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Does anyone really think DHS is free of racists and other bigots acting on their prejudices at airports across the country when those DHS employees are encountering passengers whom they believe to be from the demographic group(s) which they hate/fear?
The airport voodoo "security" of "behavior detection" and "risk based screening" with its passenger questions is just cover for such people. This former TSA worker looks like a TSA employee I used to see at MSP the -- probably the same person, with a little cut to the hair on the back of the head. Who knows how many people he targeted at MSP on account of his prejudices. And there are many ethnic Somalis working at the airport or who are passengers at MSP. |
I must take issue with the line "TSA employees provide security at the nation's airports."
When will the media stop brown-nosing the TSA and instead speak the truth? |
Originally Posted by GUWonder
(Post 16900986)
Does anyone really think DHS is free of racists and other bigots acting on their prejudices at airports across the country when those DHS employees are encountering passengers whom they believe to be from the demographic group(s) which they hate/fear?
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Originally Posted by mahohmei
(Post 16902056)
I must take issue with the line "TSA employees provide security at the nation's airports."
When will the media stop brown-nosing the TSA and instead speak the truth? Yes, TSA provides security services. Whether they are doing the job right, or the right job, is an independent question. Whether others could do the job better is another independent question. But they are providing security services. |
Originally Posted by tmspa
(Post 16900726)
He was a Checked Baggage TSO that was forced into retirement after being accused of these crimes.
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A Minneapolis man who lost his job with the Transportation Security Administration for an off-duty assault of an elderly Somali man has been sentenced to six months in prison for the hate crime.
George Thompson, 64, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Minneapolis under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Thompson's case was the first prosecuted under the act, which was signed into law in October 2009 and named after Matthew Shepard, a gay Wyoming teen who died after being kidnapped and beaten in 1998, and James Byrd Jr., a black man who was dragged to death in Texas that same year. http://www.startribune.com/local/south/134746748.html |
Originally Posted by GUWonder
(Post 16900986)
This former TSA worker looks like a TSA employee I used to see at MSP the -- probably the same person, with a little cut to the hair on the back of the head.
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
(Post 16900986)
Does anyone really think DHS is free of racists and other bigots acting on their prejudices at airports across the country when those DHS employees are encountering passengers whom they believe to be from the demographic group(s) which they hate/fear?
The airport voodoo "security" of "behavior detection" and "risk based screening" with its passenger questions is just cover for such people. This former TSA worker looks like a TSA employee I used to see at MSP the -- probably the same person, with a little cut to the hair on the back of the head. Who knows how many people he targeted at MSP on account of his prejudices. And there are many ethnic Somalis working at the airport or who are passengers at MSP. |
Just another day at the good 'ol TSA checkpoint... Why is it news when a TS"O" commits a crime or is prejudiced these days? It seems that they're all pretty much that way - either convicted criminals, criminals who haven't yet been caught, or prejudiced grumps waiting to power trip on the next passenger whose skin tone or political preferences they disagree with.
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