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TSA Reportedly Detains Wheelchair-Bound 3-Year-Old Girl, Orders Parents Not to Videotape Pat-Down

Feb. 19, 2013 10:45pm Jason Howerton

TSA Reportedly Detains Wheelchair Bound 3 Year Old, Orders Parents Not to Videotape Pat Down

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The Transportation Security Administration is once again under fire, this time for allegedly detaining a wheelchair-bound 3-year-old girl, taking away her stuffed doll and ordering the girl’s parents not to videotape TSA agents patting her down.

The girl’s father, Nathan Forck, told Fox News Radio’s Todd Starnes that the TSA treated his daughter like a “criminal.”

“And by extension, they were treating us as criminals,” he added.

The incident reportedly occurred at Lambert-St. Louis Airport on Feb. 9. Forck, his wife and their three kids were on their way to Disney World for a family vacation when the trip took an ugly turn. TSA agents reportedly pulled Lucy aside for additional security screening, despite the fact that she was 3-years-old and bound to a wheel chair due to Spina bifida.

“They specifically told me that they were singling her out for this special treatment because she’s in a wheelchair,” Forck told Fox News. “They are specifically singling out disabled people for this special scrutiny. It’s rather offensive to me as a father of a disabled child.”

A TSA agent told the family that they needed to pat down Lucy and swab her wheelchair. The family had already made it through a security checkpoint by this time. Forck’s wife, Annie, pulled out her camera and began filming the incident, which agents told her was “illegal.”

“You can’t touch my daughter unless I record it,” she can be heard telling an agent in the video. Forck then asked an agent to “cite the law” that says they can’t videotape them.

After refusing to stop filming agents patting down her 3-year-old child, the Forck family was soon reportedly surrounded by TSA agents, with one guarding Lucy personally.

That’s when the “alarm bells” really started going off for Forck, who is an attorney and knew it was perfectly legal to videotape the TSA agents.

“It’s your worst nightmare,” he said. “It’s bad enough they are demanding they want to pat down my child and didn’t want me to videotape it.”

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:08am
How many burka wearing Muslim females were passed right through, while the TSA agents scarred this child for life, and ruined her trip to Disney World?

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sparkyrules
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:07am
Hey TSA……………i’d like to fly but my wings have been so denied.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:14am
  Keep it up,TSA ……….your being WATCHED
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:00am
This handicapped child had already been screened, then she was pulled aside for a second screening.

I remember when handicapped folks used to have rights.
This is the ObamaNation that our President has created.

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COFemale
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:55am
Apparently the TSA is profiling people in wheelchairs. So it is against the law to profile muslims, but three year old girls in wheelchairs is okay. I’d file a lawsuit.

You need to nip this crap in the bud. They are power hungry and they know if people fight them, they risk going to jail, so they pick idiotic fights. They knew a 3 year old can’t fight back.

So did some Muslim in a wheelchair we don’t know about try to blow up a plane?

I will not fly either unless I absolutely must.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:54am
Why is it always White females being pulled aside and patted down?
Not once, have I ever seen a video of a Muslim female being patted down by the TSA.

These big ole **** ugly Muslim trained TSA agents always humiliate and intimidate White folks.

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enigmaforever
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:53am
So many Americans have surrendered their liberties, and freedoms to the government at times when
the government stated it was needed as a temporary action so they could provide safety for the citizens. They blame it all on 9/11, and we were promised TSA , was much like the Patriot act, would be a temporary measure. I hope all have learned that those in Washington never give back what they have robbed from us because it makes them more powerful. We should never again give any of our constitutional rights away for any reason. ~ Benjamin Franklin said it best, and we should all pay heed, “Those willing to give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.”

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:35am
I guess they need to post a sign on the airport entries that says:

BILL OF RIGHTS FREE ZONE

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jays
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:30am
Below explains your legal Right to record police officers performing their duties in public.

http://kingfish1935.blogspot.com/2012/12/supreme-court-allows-citizens-to.html

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Chancellor
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:26am
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Chancellor
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:22am
I would have rolled her right out of there! then called the police! Touch me or my family like that and that badge become a target!

Verceofreason One day your going to turn around and wonder what hit you. And I hope it me or I am there to see it!

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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:17am
STOP the TSA : http://www.chooseliberty.org/tsa_sign.aspx?pid=0501n

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patriot48
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:12am
This is a time in history that will be remembered for this kind of immoral unjust insanity that is being shoved down the throats of the American people. Terrorizing this little child makes it quite obvious who is the terrorist in his scenario. This has nothing to do with safety and everything to do with control and manipulation of the human psyche. When are Americans going to wake up and demand our freedom back?

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garbagecanlogic
Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:06am
Fire all of the SOB’s!! Don’t they hire ANY black people at TSA who have both common sense and intelligence? Get rid of TSA and go civilian contractor. All of these idiots ought to have a Louisville Slugger slapped alongside their heads to rearrange their lonely brain cell. Now we know how obama got reelected!

Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8

The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.

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msjoe43
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:57pm
That 3-yr old girl’s Civil Rights was violated.
File a civil rights lawsuit … abuse of powers done by each TSA agent involved…. wondering if these TSA agents are child molesters who are felons working as TSA agents hired by TSA & Forces Airports To Issue Security Badge .

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maggiepie
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:56pm
What is it going to take to wake the SHEEPLE up? I guess it will be when everywhere you go there is a
checkpoint and all their movements. AGENDA 21. I hope this family sues the hell out of them.
They should also sue King Obama also. Make him pay his fair SHARE.
I bet thr family never received a reasonable explanation or meaningful apology.
Hope the little girl had a good time at WDW.

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BlazingPatriot
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:54pm
Breaking News:

A passenger airliner with 188 passengers has crashed after an explosion, killing everyone aboard. A bomb strapped to an elderly, wheelchair-bound woman has been confirmed as the cause for the disaster. Witnesses who were in the airport from where the plane departed have reported that the sickly looking woman was allowed to pass freely through a security check-point after sympathizing TSA agents agreed that the typical looking American female was by no means a risk or a threat.

Further updates and reactions from airline travelers to this security breach will be posted as more information becomes available.

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- enigmaforever
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:05am
  How many of our liberties, and freedoms are you willing to surrender to the government. There have always been, and always will be dangers from some sort of act by one, or a group of people.
  We can not hide in a government shell begging for protection, with the only price being our constitutional rights, and freedoms. People in power say the constitution is flawed, they say that because it doesn’t allow them to act as a dictatorship which is what they would like, and never be accountable, but they are trying to tear down the constitution one small piece at a time .. I again will use my favorite quote Benjamin Franklin “Those willing to give up liberty for security deserve neither and will lose both.”
  
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- CulperGang
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:13pm
  You must be a TSA agent with that comment. You believe in the Bogeyman Al-Q? Of course they exist trained and funded by your gov along with the brit gov. all those bombings ? look no further than your own govs. WE HAVE ALL BEEN PLAYED, with the endgame of “total government control” of every minutia of our daily lives.
  TSA employess are useful idiots of the nwo. slime pukes.
  
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MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:52pm
The Emperor of the Planet of the Apes official
bodyguards to protect him from 3 year-old,
wheelchair bound infants.

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MCLOVINIT
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:48pm
TSA..the official Planet of the Apes goons.
The Emperor’s personal guard to protect
him from 3 year old, wheelchair-bound children.

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Jmeth
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:40pm
I would’ve been on my way to jail if i saw that in person, i only made it half way through the video and was getting very mad

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Skrewedretiree
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:36pm
So, since they first put in metal detectors in the airports in the Nixon administration to the TSA nazis under Obama, how many actual criminals have they really caught? Hmm?

One more reason I refuse to fly. The only thing I have to fear is my Government. They would strip search ME and let a terrorist onboard to blow us all to hell because they would want to be “sensitive” to moo-slums!

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sinner-saint
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:34pm
I’ve never had a problem with any TSA screeners. I’m not defending any of them nor siding with them. Just saying their won’t be a problem with any of them.

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am123
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:30pm
This is not about stopping terrorists. Those who have the motivation and desire to engage in a suicide mission fit a certain profile and have visions of virgins in paradise dancing in their heads. This is about the TSA, DHS, and Obama goons transforming this nation, as Obama promised. We are no longer the land of the free. Obama and company are gutting this nation from the inside out.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:37pm
  amen …..pass the ammo
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:39pm
  So sadly true.
  
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- stopprintn
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:41pm
  Has an American ever blown up an airplane?
  
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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:59pm
  SO you’re saying Republicans are 100% behind this garbage?
  
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- mercenary4freedom
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:09am
  Yes & the idiot electorate that thought his “FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE” would be for the good are well idiots!
  
  Our forefathers would be shooting by now.
  
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- 3-Blue
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:26am
  That’s right. They are acclimating the sheeple to having their personal space invaded by ‘authority’ figures. They want it to become ‘normal’. It makes us more compliant and manageable.
  
  Damn the people who voted to allow the TSA’s formation. I don’t fly anymore because I don’t want to spend time in prison instead of my destination. My blood is beginning to boil though and the only thing which will fix this country is collapse and extreme hardship. I am preparing and praying every day that it happens. Only extreme pain will purge the growing masses of wimps, ******, morons and sheep. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves.
  
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- Maji
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:42am
  Bad to say ,but people need to take it upon themselves to
  hurt some of these TSA people.
  They have no fear and that needs to be corrected!!
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:48am
  VERCE/GASBAG! My, you’re up late tonight! Too many uppers and not enough vodka?
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 1:08am
  STOPPRINTN! The answer to your question is YES! It all started with an explosive device placed aboard, United Airlines flight 629, out of Denver Co, on Nov 1st 1955, by a man looking to collect on an insurance policy that he took out on his mother, who was on the plane!
  
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FiscalBill
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:30pm
Man Ive heard of this branch of Al Quaeda. 3 year old spina biffada terrorists. Sure they have talking lambs but dont let that fool you.

Glad you stood your ground.

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- ReallySeriouslyNoWay
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 12:09am
  So, TSA targets specifically people in wheelchairs, but not obvious Muslims? I feel less safe all the time. It either needs to be no profiling at all, or strict profiling.
  
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 9:28am
  Muslims are not being profiled? A fox fed lie spoken enough becomes your truth.Gulls!
  
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tonypro
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:29pm
It would be awesome to see a lawsuit so large against these puppets that they had to fold up shop.

But then again, it’s our tax dollars paying for the police state, so until the guberment run out of our money nothing will be done.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:23pm
Sue the hell out of those thugs, this is intimidation pure and simple, the TSA is out of control completely and it will only be a matter of time before they threaten a kid and one or both parents defend their children.

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- ltb
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:37pm
  Stupid, ignorant TSA bureaucrats telling a mother it’s illegal for her to videotape them while they violate the Fourth Amendment and terrorize a child in a wheelchair… This is where America is right now? Pretty amazing. For all of you other stupid, ignorant liberals, this is exactly why we have the 2nd Amendment.
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 11:38pm
  Absolutely correct snow, I’m truly surprised our courts haven’t been filled up with parents that punched these thugs in the mouth for traumatizing their children like this.
  
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