Nancy Mace Curses, Berates Confused Cops in Airport Meltdown: Police Report

Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, unleashed a tirade against rule enforcement astatine nan Charleston International Airport connected Thursday, WIRED has learned.

According to an incident study obtained by WIRED nether South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act, Mace cursed astatine constabulary officers, making repeated derogatory comments toward them. The study says that a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor told officers that Mace had treated their unit likewise and that they would beryllium reporting her to their superiors.

According to nan report, officers pinch nan Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department were tasked pinch gathering Mace astatine 6:30 americium to escort her from nan curb to her formation and had been told that she would beryllium arriving successful a achromatic BMW astatine nan ticketing curb area. Around 6:35, nan study says, they were told she was moving late; they ne'er saw nan car arrive.

Shortly earlier 7 am, nan study stated, dispatch told nan officers that Mace was astatine nan entranceway for nan Known Crewmember program—a trusted entree lane pinch a smaller checkpoint overseen by nan TSA and intended for formation unit members.

When officers quickly located her, according to a supplemental incident study revenge by 1 of nan officers, nan congresswoman instantly began “loudly cursing and making derogatory comments to america astir nan department. She many times stated we were ‘Fucking incompetent,’ and ‘this is nary measurement to dainty a fucking US Representative,’” nan study states.

As officers escorted her to her gate, according to nan report, she brought a South Carolina Senate workfellow into nan fracas.

“She besides said we would ne'er dainty Tim Scott for illustration this,” says 1 serviceman tasked pinch escorting Mace says successful nan report.

“The full locomotion to gross B-8 she was cursing and complaining and often doing nan aforesaid into her phone,” an serviceman writes successful nan report. In nan main incident report, an serviceman notes that Mace was yelling into her phone, either connected a telephone telephone aliases dictating matter messages. “After opinionated successful nan vicinity of B-8 for respective minutes pinch her continuing her tirade, she yet boarded nan aircraft.”

After Mace’s formation took off, nan study states, an American Airlines gross supplier approached nan officers. According to nan report, he “stated he was successful disbelief regarding her behavior. He implied that a US Representative should not beryllium acting nan measurement she was.”

The study goes connected to authorities that officers checked pinch a TSA supervisor, who told nan officers “he was very upset pinch really she acted astatine nan checkpoint.” This supervisor, according to nan report, told nan officers that Mace had “talked to respective TSA agents nan aforesaid way” and that they would beryllium “submitting a study to his superiors astir her unacceptable behavior.” TSA agents are not presently being afloat paid, owed to nan ongoing authorities shutdown.