85-Year-Old Says She Was Strip Searched At JFK

An 85-year-old grandmother says she was injured and humiliated when agent wanted to pat her down rather than allow her to go through the scanner at JFK Airport.

Lenore Zimmerman said she was taken to a private room and made to take off her pants and other clothes after she asked to forgo the screening because she worried it would interfere with her defibrillator. She missed her flight and had to take one 2 1/2 hours later, she said.

“I’m hunched over. I’m in a wheelchair. I weigh under 110 pounds,” she said from her winter home at a seniors community in Coconut Creek, Fla. “Do I look like a terrorist?”

 The TSA says proper procedures were followed an no strip search took place.

 [Zimmerman] said she banged her shin during the process and it bled “like a pig,” partly because she is on blood-thinning medication. She said an emergency medical technician patched her up, but she was told to see a doctor when she arrived in Florida to make sure the wound didn’t get infected. There are no records indicating medical attention was called on her behalf.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.