CNN reporter describes ‘humiliating’ pat-down at airport.
A CNN reporter has filmed the moment she was given what she calls an invasive “vaginal pat-down” by airport security.
Angela Rye was randomly selected for additional screening by Transport Security Administration (TAS) officers at Detroit’s Metro Airport on Friday.
The political commentator said she was originally sent back through the backscatter machine but told she would then need to be given a “backhanded pat down around the upper thigh” by a female security officer.
But in an opinion piece published for CNN, Rye said the pat-down went much further than that.
“The pat-down began and was uneventful until she went down my leg, up my dress, and her hand sideways hits me right in the crack of my labia,” Rye wrote.
“Startled, I jump and feel a lump in my throat trying to hold back tears. What happened to the back handed pat-down?