By now, John Tyner’s video is national news, as it should be. This has gone too far.
I don’t mind removing my shoes and putting them on the conveyor. It’s a mild inconvenience. The metal detector has been used since the 1970’s without significant complaint, so I’ll comply. If I forget about the steel belt buckle and they have to pass the wand over me, so be it.
But hands on the crotch? Naked body images? Slow down there, tiger. I expect to be romanced first, and airport checkpoints don’t have the ambience for that.
This goes far beyond petty indignity.
No other law enforcement agency in America has the right to do such an invasive search without proving reasonable suspicion based on “specific and articulable facts.” We’ve endured enough of this “post-911 world” nonsense. It’s not keeping us any safer.