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Re:TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint by DanBC on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:49PM (#9000885)
All the TSA can do is call the police. It's the police who put people in jail.
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Re:TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint by soganess on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @06:56PM (#9000916)
Yes, but if you called the police, had them showed up to a bag of cliff bars and fitbit, you think things would have proceeded the same way? There is a special legal status TSA officials hold be it expressed or not.
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Re:TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint by DanBC on Thursday February 05, 2015 @05:33AM (#9002560)
OP says he was verbally abusive to the police.

If he had calmly showed police his bag of power bars and digital watch, and asked pooice to view the cctv, he would have walked away.

(It's bullshit that being angry towards officers got him arrested; it's part of the police job to deal with people in distress and they should have managed it better).

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