Published: March 15, 2011
Man Sues for Being Detained At The Airport
By Marcella Glenn
Aaron Tobey, 21-year-old, is the Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area is demanding $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
Tobey's civil rights lawsuit maintains that in December he was handcuffed, held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he removed his clothing to show on his chest a magic marker protest of airport security measures.
"Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated," Tobey's chest and stomach read.
The University of Cincinnati student didn't want to go through the advanced imaging technology X-ray machines that are at airports nationwide. Rather, when it was his turn to be screened, he was going to pick the pat down while taking-off most of his clothing.
Per the suit, while under interrogation on December 30, the authorities wanted to know "about his affiliation with, or knowledge of, any terrorist organizations, if he had been asked to do what he did by any third party, and what his intentions and goals were."
Tobey was on his way to Wisconsin for his grandmother's funeral. He made the flight.
Marcella Glenn is a freelance writer, blogger, novelist, and former business editor. She looks forward to hearing from you. Scribble a note to her through NewsBlaze, or her blog at critiqueandwrite.blogspot.com
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