Dispute Summary of Dr Rajcoomar
... Dr. Bob Rajcoomar, a former US Army Major, and his wife Dorothy were flying from Atlanta to Philadelphia on August 31, 2002. ... The two federal air marshals commanded a passenger give up his first class seat and sat the unmanageable passenger down next to Dr. Rajcoomar. ... ” In the case of Dr. Rajcoomar, freedom of movement was interrupted, and he was subjected to being treated like a dangerous criminal. ... Fullam awarded $50,000 in compensatory damages to Dr. Rajcoomar, TSA director Admiral James Loy wrote an apology, and TSA agreed to revise internal policies and training procedures to ensure there would be no repetition of the incident. ... " (Flawedlogic, 2002) This would substantiate the story by Dr. Rajcoomar that the federal air marshals had begun to act like commandos when they took charge of the unruly passenger. ... The following CNN report on that training illustrates just how closely they followed that training when they arrested Dr. Rajcoomar. ... Dr. Rajcoomar was treated like a criminal with no civil reason to justify such treatment. ... Therefore, it is not the actions of the federal air marshals that are to blame in Dr. Rajcoomar’s situation. ... Second, was there so much reason for Dr. Rajcoomar being a suspected terrorist, that his wife could not be informed that he was being arrested? Third, the plane had safely landed, and there had never been any trouble from Dr.