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micdotcom:

CNN commentator Angela Rye shares “humiliating” TSA experience on Twitter

• On Thursday, Angela Rye shared a video of her experience being “randomly selected” for a full-body search at Detroit Metropolitan Airport by the TSA.
• The video — which Rye says she asked a police officer to film — shows a TSA agent patting down Rye’s hair, shoulders, arms, back and torso.
• The agent then moves toward her genitals, at which point the agent lifts up the hem of Rye’s dress to search her upper thighs and crotch.
• In a phone interview Friday, Rye said even after clearing two security scanners — “I didn’t beep,” she clarified in a later tweet — she was still selected for random screening when the scanner lit up around her crotch.
• A glance at the #TSAVaginaMonologues hashtag reveals Rye’s experience is far from a rare occurrence. 
• Multiple women attested to triggering body-scan sensors and being subjected to similar searches. Read more

This is fucking sexual assault.