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Lincoln Ware

Nov 17, 2011 at 11:53 am

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TSA Agent Fired Over Hate Remarks Against Muslims

TSA Agent Fired Over Hate Remarks Against Muslims

A TSA agent at O’Hare airport in Chicago has been fired after he posted anti-Muslim and racist comments on his Facebook page.

Roy Egan worked at the airport for close to a decade and was suspended in October after TSA found him to be in violation of employee conduct on and off the job.

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Tom Joyner

Sep 27, 2011 at 10:59 am

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Isis Brantley: Why Would I Hide A Bomb In My Afro?

Isis Brantley: Why Would I Hide A Bomb In My Afro?

Isis Brantley, the lady whom the TSA searched her hair for a bomb, called in to the Tom Joyner Morning Show to tell her side of the story.

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Lincoln Ware

Sep 22, 2011 at 5:43 pm

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Outrage! TSA Humiliates Woman Checking Her Afro For Bombs

Outrage! TSA Humiliates Woman Checking Her Afro For Bombs

Airport security recently took to the afro of a Black Dallas woman after agents told her they had to check her hair for bombs.

Isis Brantley was walking through Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport headed for Dallas when TSA  officials ran her down just to check her hair.

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“She took her hand and she started digging around

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Lincoln Ware

Aug 17, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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Natural Hair Pat-Downs Bring Charges Of Racial Profiling

Natural Hair Pat-Downs Bring Charges Of Racial Profiling

Black women are complaining that the Transportation Security Administration is engaging in a new, humiliating brand of racial profiling: pat-downs of long, natural hair-dos.

According to an article by Joe Sharkey in the New York Times, these body searches are happening even when total-body scans aren’t setting off alarms:

On June 30, a young African-American woman, Laura Adiele, said that a screener at the Seattle-Tacoma airport insisted on patting down her

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Lincoln Ware

Jul 6, 2011 at 12:40 pm

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Caution! New Terrorist Tactic Involving Explosive Breast Implants

Caution! New Terrorist Tactic Involving Explosive Breast Implants

NEW YORK — Just when you think terrorist plots couldn’t get any more bizarre, the Transportation Security Administration has cautioned airline executives of a possible terror tactic involving surgically stitched explosives inside suicide bombers.

The NY Daily News Reports:

Terrorists simply keep looking for new ways to sneak bombs past increasingly stiff airport security, TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said.

It’s unclear if the threat means that already “enhanced” TSA patdowns would get even randier.

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