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Update: Woman Who Groped TSA Agent Will Not Face Felony Charges

Woman Who Groped TSA Agent in Denver Will Not Face Felony ChargesThe 61-year-old Colorado woman who groped a TSA agent in Phoenix last week will not face felony charges, as the Maricopa County district attorney decided Tuesday to turn the case over to city prosecutors. Yukari Mihamae could still face misdemeanor charges for her July 14 actions at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, where Police say she squeezed and twisted a female TSA agent’s left breast. Miyamae’s attorney Judd Golden told CBS Denver how the situation unfolded:

“Ms. Miyamae says she told TSA agents she wanted to be screened by the metal detector gate. She did so out of concern for excessive radiation exposure from the full-body scanners, as she is a frequent business traveler.

Her request was denied. She was soon surrounded by TSA agents. One TSA agent, a tall woman, approached Ms. Miyamae, who is only five feet tall.

Ms. Miyamae felt panicked and experienced a volatile aversion to the TSA personnel violating her personal physical space. She felt endangered and threatened based upon prior traumatizing security pat-downs, repugnance at the prospect of being touched again in such a violent and undignified manner, and instinctively pushed the female TSA agent away.”

Mihamae is a self-employed writer and translator who told the New York Post that “I go through this every week, and every week there is some problem.”

Supporters of Mihamae’s actions have flooded social media, including an “Acquit Yukari Mihamae” Facebook page which has already attracted close to 4,000 fans.  The Department of Homeland Security defended the arrest, saying “the agency will not tolerate assaults against its workforce.”

Would you classify Mihamae’s stunt as poetic justice or assault?

Comments (114)

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  • shades12
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:52pm

    To me it seems like most of the TSA agents are, have been or want to be molesters when not at work. But instead they got jobs where they can molest people AND get paid for it.

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  • Junter
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:51pm

    Security risk! Security risk! We have some free thinkers here.

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  • Vernon Black
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:49pm

    One woman‘s groping is another woman’s TSA search…I lend toward poetic justice!

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    • Cherub Blossom
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 7:09pm

      I know I will sound terrible but—yay for this lady! We’ve had ENOUGH!!!!!

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  • WTSpike
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:46pm

    While the TSA is only following orders by our beloved Federal Government, which is aghast at the notion of offending any one socio-political group or race, I’ll be glad when they come to their senses and stop harrassing travellers who are obviously NOT terrorists, and begin profiling like they should have been all along. I’m white, 51 years old, and obviously not affiliated with any Jihadi groups, yet I had my hands screened for explosives this past weekend by a very polite TSA agent. What a waste of money! We will NEVER find a terrorist by random screenings. However, if we start focusing our attentions on Arab male Muslims between the ages of 18-45, we’ll probably catch them all. Prejudice you say? How’s this: I’ll stop this so-called prejudice when the Muslim leaders of the world, along with the entire Muslim population, starts strongly denouncing and rejecting acts of terrorism, and cleans their house of the Jihadi faction of their so-called religion.

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    • jatogm
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:59pm

      Amen.

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    • conservredneck
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 4:07pm

      double AMEN

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    • helenstu
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 4:10pm

      Amen and Amen!

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    • loriann12
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 4:12pm

      So I guess when she asked to go through the metal detector instead of the body scan, she became a threat? If I had to go through that every week, I’d grope back, too.

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    • muhamadhater
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 4:34pm

      WTSPIKE for president, enough is enough, This country doen NOT have the money or man power not 2 racially profile!!! WE would save alot of money jsut looking at the people that wanty 2 hurt us insted of an 80 year old white woman or an eight yeard old kid…COMMON SCENCE!!!

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 5:01pm

      For the most part the muslim community does not take a stand against terrorism. That should tell us all we really need to know.

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    • bitter clinger
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 6:56pm

      common sence like that can lead to being called a racist.ditto Amen

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 10:14pm

      tell the jews to stop the TSA and back off if they really want the Goy to
      calm down

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  • So
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:43pm

    Good for her.

    If she had been facing felony charges, she could have counter sued with the same charges as she was groped without cause many times by the TSA.

    All of our money being wasted searching people that we aren’t at war with. And we wonder why we are so in debt. Makes a person sick.

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    • shades12
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:49pm

      From my experience it seems like most of the TSA agents are or have been or want to be molestors outside of work. When at work they get to grope people and get paid for it.

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    • DontBeADouche
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 1:23pm

      Really? Let’s just break this down to the simplest form. It’s a simple boobie squeeze and twist just like in grade school. How can that be a felony? Now a knife to the neck, I could understand that. But this is what we get when we allow our freedoms to slowly be chipped away in the name of safety. I’m about as radical as the color beige and they even swabbed me for explosives. Just remember, once in TSA Zone you just have to understand that it is a constitution free zone as well. Bend over and smile.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:40pm

    So the TSA swarmed around the 61 yr old lady who just wanted the metal detector used and has a rightfull fear of the radiation saturation machinery otherwise used. The TSA have demonstrated once again the fact they are thugs, on the order of the KGB and the old Gestapo…or East German Stazi state police (if I got the name right).

    I hope no more charges are brought against her; yet I figure the DOJ under Holder will bring some kind of charges against her to ‘make an example of her’ for daring to oppose the TSA.

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    • OneCitizenOfTheRepublic
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:44pm

      You can talk, cry, whine, bitch, yell, scream, or silent sit there fuming…

      OR, you can act. I have not flown on a commercial aircraft since the TSA grope and feel-up policies went into place. I have rather written to the airlines I used to fly..and told them of each vehicular trip I have made instead of flying. I have also told my customers and vendors that I will not fly again until such illegal actions are again controlled by our government, and not instigated by the same.

      The 4th amendment prohibits such acts…clearly, and the failures of the rest of my fellow Americans to take action against the government and the airlines is an indictment against the American people that must cause our forefathers to reject us as being unknown by them.

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    • wildbill_b
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 5:04pm

      Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to a “US citizen” only “American Citizens”. The courts are clear on it.

      “The right to trial by jury in civil cases, guaranteed by the 7th Amendment…and the right to bear arms guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment…have been distinctly held not to be privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States guaranteed by the 14th Amendment…and in effect the same decision was made in respect of the guarantee against prosecution, except by indictment of a grand jury, contained in the 5th Amendment…and in respect of the right to be confronted with witnesses, contained in the 6th Amendment…it was held that the indictment, made indispensable by the 5th Amendment, and trial by jury guaranteed by the 6th Amendment, were not privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as those words were used in the 14th Amendment. We conclude, therefore, that the exemption from compulsory self-incrimination is not a privilege or immunity of National citizenship guaranteed by this clause of the 14th Amendment.”
      [Twining v. New Jersey, 211 US 78, 98-99]

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  • grabyrgun
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:38pm

    FCK the TSA. maybe we should put THAT on a t-shirt.

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    • sts514
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:56pm

      I’ve decided I will no longer fly & will indefinitely boycott air travel due to the behavior of Team Sexual Assault (TSA). I’m not of the sexual pursuasion or preference that enjoys having a MAN – ‘toss my salad’, ‘juggle my cojones’ or any other below the waist social manipulation(s) that Team Sexual Assault gives to the flying public every day. I support Ms. Miyamae & anyone who would knock the hell out of someone touching a man or woman in their crotch or in the case of women, their chests.

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    • yosemitefan
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 6:03pm

      We should rename the TSA to SAT – Sexual Assault Team or maybe Federal Unionized Group Grope Agency maybe the FUGGA’s will get axed.

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  • Mrtoohappy
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:34pm

    I guess they will want to carry guns now since a 5 foot lady man handle them

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  • capttom
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:34pm

    I have quit flying, I knocked the Hell out of a guy for touching my CowBoy Hat. TSA will not Touch my Junk and be able to Molest Little Children, and Seniors any more.
    Capt Tom

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  • Mustangdave
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:33pm

    Screw the TSA….support BIG OIL…drive your car on out of town trips

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:29pm

    If a man had done this, he would have been charged with the felony. Count on it.

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:36pm

      ^____^____^
      Oh you know that for sure regardless where does it say you cant do to them what they do to you?!
      If what the TSA does to people was done on the street to any random person they would be locked up for assault. But no in an airport its “for your own safety” Uh huh lil asian ladies, 93 yr old grandmothers and baby diapers are prime targets for terrorism. Not a young middle eastern man who we know for fact have committed acts of terrorism.

      TSA needs to be gutted and retrained by El-Al but lets be clear its not the TSA agents who are responsible for all of this its Pistole-Napolitano-Holder-Emperor Obama.
      http://SavingtheRepublic.com

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

      Yes, I know it for sure. There is a double standard when it comes to sexual assault.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:39pm

      Now I hear they will let frequent fliers pay to bypass the TSA line. Who has a lot of money and are frequent travellers? Terrorists? Don‘t they already not search turbans and burqa’s?

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:47pm

      Sexist pig! You Must remeber-we are in ransformational times. You really need to get in touch with your “femiine” self, donchano. I’ve only flown a couple times- but by GOD! somebody wearing a blue shirt will damn well be blushing every time I go through the patdownbullcrap.

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  • olddog
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:29pm

    If we have to have the TSa then we don’t need to fly…

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  • Gdub625
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:27pm

    If the TSA can dish it out, they should be able to take it. It’s only fair.

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:26pm

    Looks like this is a case of Yukari trying to defend herself from that TSA agent attempting to exercise a molestation toward her. Until the TSA is done away with forever, our airports will never be safe.

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  • watchmany2k
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:24pm

    The TSA is simply the freudian slip of the marxist progressive.
    They do to us under the slim veil of security, what they yearn to do to us on a routine basis and more.

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  • Bennie Franklin
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:23pm

    Do your comments help or hinder the problems we have in the world. Come on man,, try being decent and maybe people will start liking you.

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  • PghLady13
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:17pm

    what backwoods country where you raised in? just a little prejudiced wouldn’t you say?

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  • Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:16pm

    “the agency will not tolerate assaults against its workforce as our workforce sexually assaults American air travellers.”

    Fixed that for them.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:24pm

      I am glad she was also brave enough to opt out in the
      1st place, many sheep are to afraid to just say NO to the Naked Body scanners
      make them search all of us the old fashion way.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:27pm

      Good fix…

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  • PghLady13
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:15pm

    Good! She did not want anyone touching her. We’ve gone too far. If I teach my kids that if someone touches them in a bad way to let us know. But then you have to preface with “unless it is the TSA worker at the airport” how does that work?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:19pm

      You don’t have to preface it with anything. Sexual assault is always sexual assault, and nobody gets to demand the right to grope your genitals in order to “allow” you to do something that is otherwise your right. In private society we call such people sexual predators, rapists, child rapists. The same applies here, the badge changes nothing.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:15pm

    The tsa should never have been created they’re violating our fourth amendment right daily,and I‘m glad to see the lady won’t face felony charges.But we‘re stuck with them now so they should be privatized because the government doesn’t have any constitutional authority for airline security.

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  • Uncle Tom
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:08pm

    It’s just a t!tty twister. What’s the big deal?

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  • Perspective
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:08pm

    The TSA is Obama’s private police force. They strip away our rights and dignity in the false name of safety. Obama wants people to stop traveling as much so they are easier to control and don’t use as much fossil fuel. Remember,walking is a form of transportation,so don’t be surprised when the TSA comes knocking on your door. They’ve already talked about doing vehicle stops. This madness has to end.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:17pm

      Not to pick a nit, but George W. Bush created TSA. When he did so, everybody I know of in libertarian circles warned that these kinds of things happening. As I recall, most “conservatives” were mute at the time.

      Well, we‘re on the same team now so I won’t say “I told you so”. That would be rude. :)

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:22pm

      Ghost is right, Blame the un Patriot act that allowed this violation
      in the first place….

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    • mydogtippy
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:22pm

      I heard that to about starting to stop cars at state lines.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Soon naked body scanners in front of Grocery stores….

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    • Hefsmaster
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:54pm

      GHOST… Most here are still clueless… Never thinking that there is a possibility that “THEY” could be next.
      Glenn can show people the door… They still need to get their asses through it…

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    • Perspective
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 7:43am

      I understand that Ghost, and I didn’t agree with it then either. If you look at how the TSA has evolved under Obama it’s even scarier though. Remember he has stated, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We‘ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”. Well I think the TSA is the beginning of that force. Look what happens most of the time when someone complains about their actions,nothing.Look at the fact that they are AFL-CIO unoinized.(not that Obama is in bed with the unions,oops,yes he is) The idea is to keep people from traveling freely,hence the hassles at the airport and also his necessary skyrocketing energy prices. A people locked in place are much easier to control. Can’t have us running all around the country,how will they know where to find us when the time comes to round up dissenters? You can call me loony but remember,walking is a form of transportation,don’t be surprised when the TSA comes knocking on your door to “keep you safe”.

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on July 21, 2011 at 3:50pm

      I can only assume that TSA tactics will only become more invasive as time goes by. If terrorists do plan on using the human body as the explosive host what types of procedures can we expect? Thankfully, I have not had to fly anywhere. But, if I had to fly today, I wouldn’t. If I can’t get there by car, I guess I am not getting there. I am a prepper. Getting ready for when the SHTF. My family and I will be ready: well hidden, well fed, and well armed.

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  • geonj
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:05pm

    “saying “the agency will not tolerate assaults against its workforce.”” but it is ok to assault senoirs and toddlers by the tsa.

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  • xoke
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:04pm

    I don’t want to be too lighthearted on this situation…but can you just picture this lady giving a TSA agent a “titty twister” without laughing out loud. Hahaha

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    • expatinontariocanada
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:13pm

      I like the Ron Bloom “dentist chair” concept here. Wherever they touch you, you get to touch them. Whatever they do to you, you get to do to them. I think the BS would stop right quick.

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    • go-army
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:17pm

      I could not agree more brother!

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  • DGeezy11
    Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:02pm

    Sounds like she was just defending herself to me. TSA is a disease that needs to be dealt with now, before it kills our air transportation services.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:20pm

      she got off because they did not want the court to
      hear the case, afraid the searches would be deemed un constitutional.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on July 20, 2011 at 3:54pm

      No Tower, she got off because she’s a woman. When a man does this, (and one will sooner or later) the Nazis in the D.O.J. will crucify him. This administration won’t allow the people to stand up for their rights and get away with it for long. This administration isn’t much different than the governments in these muslim countries that are on fire right now.

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