CNN commentator compares her TSA 'vagina chop' to Donald Trump's 'p-grabbing'

CNN’s Angela Rye documented a rather personal TSA pat-down at DTW in Detroit, including a now viral video of the inspection shot by a police officer:

1. Metal detector and AIT (same thing). The AIT is what flagged my vag. I repeatedly refused a vaginal pat down. So they called police. https://t.co/fFtjbXW9H4

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

2. Even offered to go back through AIT. They told me to get the pat down or be escorted out by police.

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

3. Instead, the officer recorded TSA's pat down and offered to file an incident report when it was finished.

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

4. What she explained she would do in "back hand" pat down and the actual vaginal chop that occurred were diff. I would've preferred neither

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

Apparently Rye was randomly selected for extra screening and that’s when the problem started. From CNN:

The TSA agent told me to spread my legs. Interested to know why I needed to open my legs further than the yellow feet imprints, I inquired. What are the footprints there for, then? She insisted that my floor-length dress would stop flowing if my legs were spread that far apart. I shrugged with a “girl, I guess” kind of indifference.

What happened next was unbelievable. The backscatter machine alerted to my right Uggs boot, three areas near my vagina and I think somewhere on my back.

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I asked them to do this in public. I wouldn't have felt safer or less violated in "private". https://t.co/vCB0naXCUi

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

Here’s the video:

I asked the police officer to film this so I can send to @TSA. I'm hoping my humiliation will fix the system. #TSAVaginaMonologues pic.twitter.com/lypkkcpZCW

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

This certainly looks awful and all and we’ve posted before on the TSA’s ridiculous security theater, but was it really necessary to turn this into something anti-Trump?

So, apparently TSA follows a p-grabbing Trump model…? https://t.co/L2um8XaKbt

— A N G E L A | R Y E (@angela_rye) December 16, 2016

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