"‘Hey you! Hey you! Ma'am! Ma’am! Stop! Stop! The lady with the hair! You!" Brantley said. When the Transportation Security Administration agent caught up with Brantley, she was told she would miss her flight if she didn’t allow her hair to be searched.
Brantley said she was in tears as the agent started “digging” through her hair to check for weapons. She asked the agent to “just find what you’re looking for and please hurry and leave. It was just humiliating,” Brantley said. “I was so embarrassed.” In a statement, the TSA said Brantley left the checkpoint area before screening was completed and she refused a private screening that was offered.
"Additional screening may be required for clothing, headwear or hair where prohibited items could be hidden,” the statement said. Brantley, who said she hasn’t cut her hair since age 12, said her hair had never been searched before. After complaining, Brantley said a TSA supervisor at Hartsfield-Jackson apologized.
With news video.
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Oh whatever. Hopefully this won't be turned into a racial thing.
When my hair was longer and I used to wear it up in a bun I was routinely searched by airport security to ensure I wasn't smuggling drugs etc. My mother had her hair searched as well, and I had a Muslim friend who was asked to remove her headscarf (behind a screen and seen only by a female security guard)so they could take a look at her hair. None of us thought anything of it!
I've been probed in places I've never been before, either, and they're a helluvalot more invasive than hair.
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