TSA FACING LAWSUIT What were they thinking

Posted on 07/07/2016 | About Memphis, Tennessee

The Transportation Security Administration is facing a lawsuit after a disabled teen was left 'bloodied and bruised' in a confrontation with TSA agents at Memphis Airport. Hannah Cohen was returning home to Chattanooga in June 2015 after hospital treatment when a security alarm went off at an airport checkpoint.

Cohen is partially deaf, blind and paralysed due to many years of brain cancer treatment.
She became disorientated by TSA agents' attempts to search her, and was allegedly slammed to the ground causing facial cuts and bruising.
Cohen was arrested and detained overnight but a charge alleging assault against a TSA agent was later dropped.
"She was trying to get away from them but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. There was blood everywhere," her mother Shirley Cohen told WREG-TV.
"The security personnel failed to recognize that she was confused because of her obvious disability and was unable to cooperate with the search," attorneys Kelly Pearson and William Hardwick said in the lawsuit filed against the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority and the TSA.
The family is seeking damages for pain, medical expenses, personal and emotional injury, and embarrassment for a 'reasonable sum not exceeding $100,000 and costs.'
According to local news reports, Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority CEO Scott Brockman said, "Anybody can file anything, and we don't comment on active litigation. Clearly there are additional facts in this matter, and we won't comment until we address the litigation,"