Grandmother’s ‘strip-search’

AN 84-year-old New York grandmother says she was injured and humiliated during a strip-search at a city airport.

Grandmother’s  ‘strip-search’

Lenore Zimmerman says she was on her way to a flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida when she was searched after she asked to forgo body scanners because she worried they would interfere with her defibrillator.

She says she is hunched over, weighs about 110 pounds and is going to be 85 in February. “Do I look like a terrorist?” she asked. She says the screener made her take off her pants.

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