Disabled teenager beaten up by TSA agents

A year ago, Hannah Cohen and her family were returning to their home in Chattanooga, flying from the Memphis airport following annual cancer treatments at St. Jude hospital. They had made the trip many times.  But on June 30. 2015, Hannah didn't make it past the security checkpoint.  Hit and Run picks up the narrative: Her years of treatment left the teenager partially deaf, blind in one eye, and limited in her abilities to walk and talk. She also, according to her mother, can become easily confused. When Hannah went through the metal detector at the airport, an alarm went off. Disoriented by the noise, she did not immediately cooperate with TSA agents who asked to conduct further screening. Shirley Cohen tried to inform the agents about her daughter's disabilities, she told television station WREG, but airport police kept her away. That's when the situation between Hannah and the TSA officials became violent: "She's trying to...(Read Full Post)