Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Herald.com - Your Miami Everything Guide

Herald.com - Dropping Trou to Stay Secure: "Dr. Louis Keith, a professor at Northwestern University Medical School who saw the episode, sides with the incensed passenger.
''An agent from TSA put his hands in the man's pockets, then I saw [the agent] take off his pants,'' Keith said.
The doctor says he heard Holness ask the guard, ''What are you doing?'' but got no reply."

"''I'm 100 percent confident that we did not ask this man to take his pants off in full view of the public,'' [Lauren Stover, spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration] said. ``Apparently, he was very frustrated, and we understand that.''

Stover said multiple witnesses corroborate the security guard's account. But the agency conceded he should have summoned a supervisor well before the incident escalated to the point where the gloves -- or pants -- came off."

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