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The Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) has apologized to a Native American traveler who says she faced a ‘humiliating’ encounter with an employee one day of a security pat-down.
Whereas traveling thru Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport, Tara Houska, an indigenous rights activist and attorney, acknowledged on Twitter closing week that a TSA agent pulled her braids in the assist of her shoulders, laughed and acknowledged ‘giddyup!’ sooner than snapping her braids love reins.
The Minneapolis-St.Paul Worldwide Airport replied to Houska on Twitter, pronouncing they were “sorry to hear about (her) expertise” and acknowledged they’d forward Houska’s tweet to TSA.
The TSA acknowledged in an announcement emailed to TIME that it turned into attentive to a traveler’s allegations “about her screening expertise at Minneapolis-St. Paul Worldwide Airport Monday morning.” TSA Federal Safety Director for Minnesota Cliff Van Leuven “spoke with the traveler,” the assertion acknowledged, noting that, “He apologized for actions and a deliver that were insensitive and made by a TSA officer to the traveler one day of the screening expertise.”
The TSA furthermore shared an e-mail from Van Leuven that looked as if it could probably be sent to workers thru which he addressed the incident.
It be taught: “Within the guidelines closing night and this day you’ve possible viewed – or heard – of a TSA Officer at MSP who turned into insensitive in screening the long braided hair of a Native American passenger Monday morning. Did it the truth is happen? Creep. Exactly as described? Creep.”
“Treating the final public we are sworn to aid and give protection to with dignity and respect is our calling – every passenger, each day,” Van Leuven acknowledged. “We’ll be taught from this…”
Houska acknowledged TSA’s apology on Jan. 16 and added: “I the truth is, the truth is hope this doesn’t happen to anybody else transferring forward.” She acknowledged the agency’s response and phone to “be taught from this” turned into a “genuine” response.
“My braids are no longer reins, I will have confidence to silent be handled with dignity, as can have confidence to silent each person else,” Houska acknowledged.
The TSA and airport security procedures have confidencebeen criticized recurrentlyfordiscrimination.
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