Disabled Cancer Patient Sues Memphis International Airport, TSA After Bloody Checkpoint Scuffle

Bloodied and bruised, 19-year-old cancer patient Hannah Cohen was led from Memphis International Airport in handcuffs last year.

The teen was heading home to Chattanooga on June 30, 2015, after treatment for a brain tumor at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis.

It's a trip her family has made for 17 years.

This time, an unarmed Hannah Cohen set off the metal detector at a security checkpoint.

“They wanted to do further scanning. She was reluctant -- she didn't understand what they were about to do," said her mother Shirley Cohen.

Shirley Cohen said she tried to tell Transportation Security Administration agents her daughter is partially deaf, blind in one eye, paralyzed, and easily confused. Radiation and the removal of the brain tumor have left her with disabilities.

But she was kept at a distance from her daughter by police, Cohen 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,” she said.

Hannah Cohen was arrested and booked, and on the night she should have been celebrating the end of her treatment, she was locked up.

[link to ktla.com]