Morrissey Says He Was Sexually Assaulted by Airport Security

Update: The TSA has denied wrongdoing in a statement provided to Rolling Stone. “TSA takes all allegations of misconduct seriously and strives to treat every passenger with dignity and respect,” a spokesman said. “Upon review of closed circuit TV footage, TSA determined that the supervised officer followed standard operating procedures in the screening of this individual.” 

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Morrissey has posted a note on True to You saying he was sexually assaulted at San Francisco International Airport earlier this week. In the post, he describes passing through the walk-through scanner before being approached by an airport security officer. The officer, who was later identified as the General Manager On Duty, “stopped me, crouched before me and groped my penis and testicles,” Morrissey says.

Two members of British Airways Special Services were, he adds, “horrified” by the assault, and suggested he file a complaint. He relays the following exchange:

You have just sexually groped this man.
Officer: That’s just your opinion.
What you have done is illegal.
Officer: That’s just your opinion.
You have no right to do what you have just done.
Officer: That’s just your opinion.

Here’s Moz’s response:

Apart from “that’s just your opinion”, he would not comment, even though, since the penis and testicles were mine and no one else’s, then my opinion must surely have some meaning. But, of course, what the airport security officer was saying was: your opinion will never count in the eyes of the law. The words “that’s just your opinion” volunteered themselves from this ‘officer’s’ mouth before he had even heard the question. He knew he could be confronted, but he also knew that he could never be challenged (even though the entire incident is most certainly on CCTV camera).

He concluded, “Do people have minds?” Read the full post here.

Yesterday, Morrissey penned a separate post attacking Cecil the Lion’s killer, a Sydney bookstore that apparently mismanaged his book-signing, and his record label Harvest. Read it here.

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