By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
A 19-year-old woman who had an impairment from radiation and the removal of a bran tumor was assaulted by security workers at a Memphis International checkpoint, according to a lawsuit.
WREG-TV reports that Hannah Cohen was flying home to Chattanooga on June 30, 2015, after receiving treatment that limited her ability to talk, walk, see and hear.
The security alarm confused Cohen because of her condition.
“The security personnel failed to recognize that she was confused because of her obvious disability and was unable to cooperate with the search,” Cohen’s lawyers, Kelly Pearson and William Hardwick, wrote in the lawsuit.
Police ignored the mother’s explanations, she said.
“She’s trying to get away from them but in the next instant, one of them had her down on the ground and hit her head on the floor. There was blood everywhere,” Shirley Cohen said.
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