It was a hair-raising journey!
A copiously coiffed Dallas woman says that she got a humiliating extra airport pat-down by the TSA because they thought she could be hiding a bomb in her large Afro hairstyle, according to a report.
Isis Brantley said she had already been screened at Hartsfield-Jackson International Air-port in Atlanta and left the security area Monday, when a TSA guard chased after her and demanded to inspect her locks.
“I just heard these voices saying, ‘Hey, you! Hey, you! Ma’am, stop! Stop! The lady with the hair! You!’ ” Brantley said in an interview with Dallas’ KXAS-TV.
Brantley — who travels the country working as a hairstylist — said she quickly told the aggressive officer that her hair had not been searched, and tried to continue to her flight.
But the TSA wouldn’t let it end there. The agent chased her as she was heading down an escalator, she told the station.
The agent demanded to give Brantley’s hair a good groping.
“And so she started patting my hair, and I was in tears at that point,” Brantley said. “They’ve never done that to me, ever — never, never.”