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Mom with breast cancer is left violated by TSA agents at the Los Angeles International Airport
- Published_at:2016-12-07
- Category:News & Politics
- Channel:World News
- tags: Woman Breast Cancer Violated TSA agents Los Angeles Airport
- description: A woman fighting breast cancer said she was 'violated' by TSA officers who attempted to perform 'a body cavity search in public' after she alerted them of a medical cream in her bag. Denise Albert, a morning show contributor and co-host of the radio show The Moms, was traveling through the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday when the 'humiliating' experience left her in tears. Albert detailed the experience of removing her wig, exposing the sores on her feet, and telling the TSA agents she had a medical port in her chest that she didn't want them to touch - a warning that was not heeded. Albert said she notified the TSA about her medical port and removed the cream from her bag, as she has done numerous times before without an issue. The security agents then pulled her aside, and said she would have to take off her shoes and undergo a full body pat-down 'with pressure' if she wanted to take the medical cream with her, Albert wrote. The agents flouted the TSA pre-check protocol by asking her to take off her shoes, leaving her bare feet freezing for 20 minutes due to her medical treatment, she claimed. Albert asked to sit down, since her chemotherapy has left her feet covered in sores, which she did not want touching the ground. They later offered to conduct the search in the privacy of a room, but Albert said she couldn't walk there because they wouldn't return her boots. The radio host said the agents then told her they would 'apply pressure from head to toe', and she decided to take her wig off, saying: 'I didn't want them to touch it, move it, or ruin it'. At a certain point, one agent 'forceab[ly] and aggressively put her hands down my jeans in the back', Albert wrote, before adding that they 'aggressively attempted to do a body cavity search in public'. Video footage showed one woman touching her chest, despite Albert's medical port. She had also undergone a lumpecomy to remove a growth from her breast.
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