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

Nancy Mays, d A South Carolina Republican congresswoman released 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 Cursing police officers, making repeated derogatory comments towards them. The report said that Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisors told officers that Mace had treated their employees similarly and that they would report him to their superiors.

Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department officers were assigned to meet Mays at 6:30 a.m. to escort him to his flight from the curb and were told he would arrive at the ticketing area in a white BMW, the report said. Around 6:35, the report said, they were told he was running late; They never saw the car coming.

Shortly before 7 a.m., the report said, dispatch told officers that Mace was at the entrance to the Known Crewmember Program—a trusted access lane with a small checkpoint overseen 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 congresswoman immediately began “loudly cursing us and making derogatory comments about the department. She repeatedly said we were ‘completely incompetent,’ and that ‘this is no way to treat a U.S. representative,'” the report said.

As officers escorted him to his gate, he reportedly engaged a colleague in the South Carolina Senate.

“He also said that we would never treat Tim Scott like this,” an official tasked with escorting Mays said in the report.

“He was cursing and complaining the entire walk to the B-8 gate and often did the same on his phone,” an officer wrote in the report. In the original incident report, an officer noted Mays was yelling at his phone, either on phone calls or text messages. “After standing around the B-8 for several minutes continuing his tirade, he finally boarded the plane.”

After Mace’s flight took off, the report said, an American Airlines gate agent approached the officers. According to the report, he “said that he was incredulous about her behavior. He indicated that a US representative should not behave like he did.”

The report states that officers checked with a TSA supervisor, who told officers “she was very upset with the way she behaved at the checkpoint.” That supervisor, according to the report, told the officers that Mays had “talked to several TSA agents in the same way” and that they would “submit a report to his superiors about his unacceptable behavior.” TSA agents are currently not being paid in full due to the ongoing government shutdown.