Gangsters in Blue

The Maricopa County, Arizona, Board of Supervisors has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Richard Naquin Jr. Naquin was performing search and relief work in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina when his eye was shot out in a road rage incident by two Maricopa County sheriff's deputies who had also gone to Louisiana to help out.

Kathy Parker was flying out of Philadelphia National Airport, and when she got through security, she found Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents had poured out the contents of her carry-on bags. One of them also emptied out her wallet and started going through its contents. TSA then called Philadelphia police officers. One officer said they were concerned because she had several checks in her wallet made out to her and her husband and accused her of embezzling money. She gave them her husband's number to confirm why she had those checks. They called him and, 30 minutes later, allowed her to board her plane. Her husband said they told him they believed she was going to clean out their bank account and leave him.

Flight attendant Cathy Bossi says she reluctantly went through an X-ray machine at Charlotte Douglas International Airport. As a cancer survivor, she says she was worried about the radiation. But after sending her through the machine, Transportation Security Administration agents still wanted to do a pat down search of her. When one of the agents felt up her right breast, she asked "What is this?" Bossi explained that she had a breast removed because of cancer and now wore prosthesis. The agent demanded she remove the prosthesis and show it to her before she could board the plane for work.