Editing Transportation Security Administration (section)

===Incidents===
====2013 Los Angeles airport shooting====
{{main|2013 Los Angeles International Airport shooting}}
On Friday, November 1, 2013, TSA officer Gerardo I. Hernandez, age 39, was shot and killed by a lone gunman at the Los Angeles International Airport. Law enforcement officials identified the suspect as 23-year-old Paul Anthony Ciancia, who was shot and wounded by law enforcement officers before being taken into custody.<ref>{{cite news |title=LAX shooting: Slain TSA Officer identified as Gerardo I. Hernandez |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lax-shooting-slain-tsa-agent-identified-as-gerardo-i-hernandez-20131101-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=November 2, 2013 |first1=Brian |last1=Bennett |first2=Richard |last2=Winton |first3=Scott |last3=Gold |date=November 1, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817095700/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/01/local/la-me-ln-lax-shooting-slain-tsa-agent-identified-as-gerardo-i-hernandez-20131101 |archive-date=August 17, 2014}}</ref> Ciancia was wearing fatigues and carrying a bag containing a hand-written note that said he "wanted to kill TSA and pigs". Hernandez was the first TSA officer to be killed in the line of duty.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jansen |first=Bart |date=November 1, 2013 |title=TSA workers mourn first death on duty |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2013/11/01/tsa-mourning-lax-shooting/3360655/ |url-status=live |work=[[USA Today]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025140500/https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2013/11/01/tsa-mourning-lax-shooting/3360655/ |archive-date=October 25, 2020 |access-date=December 31, 2020}}</ref>

====2015 New Orleans airport attack====
On March 21, 2015, 63-year-old Richard White entered the [[Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport]] armed with six [[Molotov cocktail]]s, a gasoline lighter, and a [[machete]]. White began assaulting passengers and Transportation Security Administration officers by spraying them with a can of wasp killer, then started swinging his machete. A TSA agent blocked the machete with a piece of luggage, as White ran through a metal detector. A [[Jefferson Parish, Louisiana|Jefferson Parish]] deputy sheriff shot and killed White as he was chasing a TSA officer with his machete.<ref name="USAToday">{{cite news |last=Toppo |first=Greg |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/21/new-orleans-airport-attack-scene/25136201/ |title=New Orleans airport machete suspect is dead |work=[[USA Today]] |date=March 21, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707192745/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/21/new-orleans-airport-attack-scene/25136201/ |archive-date=July 7, 2017 |access-date=September 17, 2017 }}</ref>

==== COVID-19 pandemic in the United States ====
TSA continued working throughout the [[2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic in the United States]]. As of December 31, 2020, TSA cumulatively had 4,978 federal employees test positive for [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]]: 4,219 of those employees recovered, and 12 died as a result of the virus.<ref name="tsa-covid">{{cite web |url=https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/ |title=Coronavirus (COVID-19) information |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 31, 2020 |website=tsa.gov/ |quote=TSA has cumulatively had 4,978 federal employees test positive for COVID-19. 4,219 employees have recovered, and 12 have unfortunately died after contracting the virus. We have also been notified that one screening contractor has passed away due to the virus |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424164020/https://www.tsa.gov/coronavirus/ |archive-date=April 24, 2020}}</ref>