Sunday, March 20, 2011

News: Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest

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News: Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest

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Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest

  • By David Kravets
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Government photo of Aaron Tobey being held at Richmond International Airport on December 30

A 21-year-old 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.

Aaron Tobey claims in a civil rights lawsuit(.pdf) that in December he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International Airport after he began removing his clothing to display 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,” his chest and gut read.

The University of Cincinnati student didn’t want to go through the advanced imaging technology X-ray machines that are cropping up at airports nationwide. Instead, when...

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