TSA Worker Jailed In Body Scan Rage Incident

A TSA worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after he attacked a co-worker for making fun of the size of his genitals. Rolando Negrin walked through one of the new body scanners during a recent training session and a supervisor started making fun of his manhood. From the article: "According to the police report, Negrin confronted one of his co-workers in an employee parking lot, where he hit him with a police baton on the arm and back."

4th Amendment

[Anonymous Coward]

The TSA is a government agency and has no right to, essentially, strip search you if you refuse. Refuse full body scans and request other search options.

Re:1 Month after the institute this system...

[clone53421]

I flew not long ago, and I didn’t walk through one. I went past it, like most everyone else. They didn’t stop me, but I did see them stop one lady (a rather attractive lady, now that I’ve come to think of it) and have her walk into it.

I want their job.

Re:4th Amendment

[Tsunayoshi]

As far as I know, you can refuse to walk through the scanner, they will pull you to the side for extra security scanning.

If you're lucky, they are not understaffed that day and you get a good TSA employee and can get through the extra process with only a minumum of hassle.

Or, you can get some TSA employee having a really bad day who is pissed of that (s)he now has to deal with you and it will could forever and be a pain in the ass.

Re:sexual harassment

[dollarwizard]

can this guy sue the tsa for sexual harassment?

Actually it would be for a hostile work environment [google.com].

Re:It's News, but...

[Locke2005]

It is a well established medical fact that a man's circulatory system is not capable of simultaneously supplying adequate blood flow to both the brain and the penis.

Re:Question

[Titanarm]

Actually you are correct depending on your county/state. Nude pictures of children are not always legally considered child porn. The pictures must be sexually suggestive in some way. This is why nude beaches (depending on your county/state) are not illegal and people of all ages can walk around with their sex parts hanging everywhere and you or anybody else can freely take pictures as if on a regular beach.

Nope, the airport's claims were disproven

[jeko]

The airport claimed they didn't do it, citing they the machines did not have a printer. CNN proved they did have a print capability. The only one caught in a lie so far is the airport spokesman.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/scannergate-facts-contradict-heathrow-claim-that-naked-images-cant-be-printed.html [prisonplanet.com]
"However, leaked government documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and confirmed as authentic by CNN show that the devices must have the ability to store and send images when in "test mode."

"That requirement leaves open the possibility the machines -- which can see beneath people's clothing -- can be abused by TSA insiders and hacked by outsiders, said EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg," according to the report.

"If you look at the actual technical specifications and you read the vendor contracts, you come to understand that these machines are capable of doing far more than the TSA has let on," added Rotenberg.

Indeed, if there is no capability for the devices to save, distribute and print images, then how on earth have news organizations obtained print outs of such images like the one below?

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