Austin Woman Thrown to Floor, Arrested for Refusing Pat Down at Airport

Jim Bergamo
KVUE News
December 23, 2020

Early Wednesday morning, a computer glitch shut down a security checkpoint for a couple of hours at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. The line snaked out the door as many travelers waited for more than an hour and some missed their flights. One of the first people in line after that shutdown never made it through. She was arrested and banned from the airport.

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Claire Hirschkind, 56, who says she is a rape victim and who has a pacemaker-type device implanted in her chest, says her constitutional rights were violated. She says she never broke any laws. But the Transportation Security Administration disagrees.

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This article was posted: Thursday, December 23, 2010 at 10:38 am

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