robkelk Wrote:I'm surprised they were allowed to make him miss his flight. (In Canada, it's a criminal offense to detain a Member of Parliament who is performing his duties, and "returning to the capital" sure looks like something that's covered in that category...)They're not allowed to arrest him, as someone else has pointed out, but a brief detention and a denial of entry to the security zone is well within what's permitted in the USA. As far as I can tell they only held him for a couple of hours, probably for reasons that an honest supervisor would list as "he annoyed me". At which point someone may well have reminded him of the rules, and whatever caused security to react to him the first time didn't happen when he went to board the later flight, so...
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