After sending Roger Vanderklok for jail for the audacity of asking to file a complaint, Philadelphia International Airport TSA supervisor Charles Kieser then lied about what happened on the stand in court. He fabricated an aggressive confrontation and a bomb threat, neither of which are in evidence on the CCTV footage or in the police report. His victim was help incommunicado in jail, panicking his wife who had no idea where he’d gone. Kieser gets to keep his job.
Kieser intervened, he said, and that’s when Vanderklok complained that the screening was “delaying him.” While he said this, he “had both hands with fingers extended up toward the ceiling up in the air at the time and shaking them.”
Vanderklok also “put his finger in my face. And he said, ‘Let me tell you something. I’ll bring a bomb through here any day I want.’ And he said you’ll never find it.”
Vanderklok repeated the aggressive finger-pointing two more times, Kieser testified.
But here’s the thing: Airport surveillance videos show nothing of the sort.
Polaneczky: TSA jails innocent traveler when he asks to file a complaint [Ronnie Polaneczky/Philly.com]
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