The 17-year-old was having a meal on the floor when she was attacked with a butcher knife Sunday. Officials say they aren’t yet ruling out hate crime charges.
A man accused of stabbing a transgender 17-year-old girl with a butcher knife at Miami International Airport on Sunday was arrested and charged with attempted murder, police said.
Alexander Love, 29, was charged with first-degree attempted murder with a deadly weapon and attempted premeditated murder, according to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Police Department.
Officers responded to Terminal J around 11:30 p.m. after reports of a stabbing, officials said in a news release. The victim was eating a meal while sitting on the floor when, officials say, Love attacked her without provocation, stabbing her about 18 times in her face, head, arms, shoulders, neck and legs before he tried to throw her over a safety retaining glass, officials said.
That’s cool and all, but they fail to detect weapons all the time. Just because airport security has never been good doesn’t mean we can’t be critical of them now. They constantly implement new procedures that just plain don’t work beyond making air travel an even bigger hassle. I don’t think Lemmy users are big on privatization ever, and no one suggested that, but this kind of failure is a pretty big deal. Our demise is still an acceptable risk, except now it’s because they hire people who don’t give one single rat’s ass, pay them poorly, and use all kinds of things that look great on the surface but aren’t effective at preventing a guy from bringing a butcher knife into the airport (at what’s usually a pretty slow time of night) and very nearly succeeding at murdering someone.
Like I said, there is no perfect system. People are people and they fuck up. All the time. For some reason we have this really messed up idea in our heads that when we place people in certain positions we expect perfection. Doctors. Pilots. TSA. Whoever. Zero meistakes. But that’s not what happens, is it? There’s plenty of bad doctors. There’s an unfortunate number of doctors that fuck up. Same with pilots. Same with the TSA. Have a doctor do thousands of operations in a day. See how many mistakes they make. How many patients suffer for it? How many planes crash, or just screw up in ways that don’t result in death but break through some serious safety barriers?
It’s really messed up that we put people in positions and expect perfection, an impossibility, and then criticize them harshly for failure. The only way IMO to deal with this is to strive for improvement while understanding that people are just humans.
I get mocking the TSA. I deal with them every day I go to work. Yeah, it’s frustrating. The rules seem arbitrary and ineffective. But the only way I can balance this is that we need to compare it to what we had before and look at what we’re willing to implement (and pay for) to improve the system. I never hear of anyone with any decent suggestions, so I get tired of people bitching when they have nothing useful to offer.
the TSA is not “not perfect”; they’re a joke.
it’s pure theater. they have basically no ability to detect actual weapons at all, hence why it’s a common problem when passengers arrive abroad only to find out they accidentally carried loose ammunition across borders.
there’s a huge difference between “not quite perfect” and “completely and utterly useless waste of time, money, and resources”, the latter of which describes the TSA.
IF they actually did anything useful at all, then fine, you have a point. but they don’t, which is why people are disagreeing with you.
because in principle you’re right, that security is required and should be taken seriously…but the TSA isn’t actually providing security. they’re providing the appearance of security.