Security camera footage of a scuffle between a disabled cancer patient and security officers at the Memphis airport has been obtained and released by The Commercial Appeal, a Tennessee-based newspaper. When one of the agents tries to detain her, Cohen tries to punch the agent, who then slams her to the floor.
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The lawsuit states Hannah Cohen was 19 and had just completed treatment for a brain tumor.
While making her way through the airport, Cohen apparently set off a metal detector at a security checkpoint that led to a huge scuffle with security officers.
Two guards grabbed her daughter from both sides, the mother said.
Newly released video shows a Tennessee woman fighting with airport police before she is slammed to the ground.. “They didn’t listen to me at all”.
The video published by the Commercial Appeal on Thursday showed that Cohen shoved and hit an officer. “There was blood everywhere”.
She had refused to go through additional screening or leave the checkpoint, an airport police report states. The arresting officer reported no injuries.
Shirley Cohen said her daughter had been going to St. Jude for 17 years, which included traveling through the airport many times “without incident ever”.
After an inaudbile conversation with her mother Shirley, airport police and a TSA agent, the teenager begins struggling with a police officer and whacks him on the back. The Memphis Airport Police Department has filed a motion to dismiss the suit against them for a multitude of reasons, mostly that they fall under the airport authority.
“At this point, it is alleged, ” Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority president and CEO Scott Brockman said.
Adding to the confusion, Cohen is blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and partially paralyzed, her mother previously told The Guardian.
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The then 18-year-old filed suit against the airport, airport police and TSA in June, saying that agents assaulted her during an encounter where she was left bullied and bruised. They say the airport is also at fault for failing to properly manage its personnel.
