Metro Briefs

VIRGINIA

ARLINGTON

TSA posts video to counter mom’s claim

The Transportation Security Administration is denying accusations that an airport screener seized a toddler’s sippy cup and mistreated his mother.

To make its point, the TSA has taken the unusual step of posting security camera footage on its Web site.

At issue is whether Monica Emmerson, a former Secret Service officer, was improperly detained at Washington’s Reagan National Airport last month.

After being told she would have to go empty her son’s sippy cup if she wanted to keep it, TSA said Miss Emmerson dumped the water on the floor. She said it spilled accidentally.

In the video posted by the TSA, Miss Emmerson appears to take the top off the sippy cup and shake it upside down. She is confronted by several officers, then shown cleaning up the spill with paper towels fetched by the TSA.

TSA says its officers displayed professionalism.

MARYLAND

SAVAGE

Officer hit by car, critically injured

A Howard County police officer is in critical condition after he was struck by a car while working a speed-enforcement detail yesterday afternoon.

Police said the officer was flown to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after the accident, which happened at about 2 p.m. on eastbound Route 32 near Route 1.

Chief William McMahon said Officer Scott Wheeler was in the process of flagging down a violator when he was hit.

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