Nancy Macé, the A South Carolina Republican lawmaker launched a tirade against law enforcement at Charleston International Airport on Thursday, WIRED has learned.
According to an incident report obtained by WIRED under South Carolina’s Freedom of Information Act, Mace swore at the officers, making derogatory comments to them on several occasions. The report states that a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor told agents that Mace had treated their staff the same way and that they would report her to their superiors.
According to the report, officers from the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department were assigned to meet Mace at 6:30 a.m. to escort her from the curb to her flight, and were told she would arrive in a white BMW at curbside. Around 6:35 p.m., the report says, they were told she was late; they never saw the car arrive.
Shortly before 7 a.m., according to the report, the dispatcher told officers that Mace was at the entrance to the Known Crewmember (KCM) program, a reliable access route with a smaller checkpoint supervised by the TSA and intended for flight crew members.
When officers quickly located her, according to a supplemental incident report filed by one of the officers, the deputy immediately began “loudly swearing at us and making derogatory comments about the department. She repeatedly stated that we were ‘fucking incompetent’ and ‘that’s no way to treat a fucking U.S. Representative,'” the report states.
As officers escorted her to her door, according to the report, she brought a colleague from the South Carolina Senate into the fight.
“She also said we would never treat Tim Scott like that,” an officer assigned to escort Mace said in the report.
“The entire ride to Gate B-8, she was cursing and complaining and often doing the same thing on her phone,” an officer wrote in the report. In the primary incident report, an officer notes that Mace was yelling into his phone, either during a phone call or while dictating text messages. “After remaining in the vicinity of B-8 for several minutes while she continued her tirade, she finally boarded the aircraft.”
After Mace’s flight took off, the report said, an American Airlines gate agent approached the officers. According to the report, he “stated he was incredulous about her behavior. He implied that a U.S. representative should not act as she did.”
The report goes on to say that agents checked with a TSA supervisor, who told agents “he was very upset with the way she behaved at the checkpoint.” That supervisor, according to the report, told officers that Mace had “spoken to several TSA agents in the same manner” and that they would “submit a report to his superiors about his unacceptable behavior.” TSA agents are currently not fully paid, due to the current government shutdown.
