TSA Screener Arrested for Sexual Assault

Harold Glenn Rodman, 52, charged in Virginia with abduction with intent to defile, aggravated sexual assault, forcible sodomy, and object sexual penetration

That a TSA officer committed sexual assault is no big deal. It’s perfectly normal, and it happens every day. That he allegedly committed sexual assault while not even on the job is highly unusual indeed. Normally, those guys have to be on the clock and in uniform if they’re going to do a thing like that. To this officer’s credit, he did meet the second of those requirements–he was in uniform. He had his badge on and everything, outside his home in Virginia. He even made a point of brandishing the badge, as if proud, or as if authenticating his relevant credentials. He did things exactly as he thought he was supposed to do, exactly as he’d been trained to do, except that he forgot to remember the context, and he forgot to remember that, really, context can count for so much.