Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) threw a mood tantrum on the Charleston Worldwide Airport Thursday, loudly cursing and berating cops merely making an attempt to escort her to the gate, in accordance with an incident report.
The 2 Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Division officers who bore the brunt of Mace’s fury had been ready for the congresswoman’s “white BMW” to reach on the airport curb so they may whisk her to her gate, however by no means noticed the automobile arrive, the report obtained by The Submit explains.
The officers had been notified that the 47-year-old Republican had arrived simply quarter-hour after they had been anticipating the congresswoman and Republican candidate for governor of South Carolina on the curb.
Lower than a minute later, the officers encountered a “very irate” Mace ready for them on the airport’s TSA Identified Crewmember entrance, the report notes.
“Throughout the whole escort, Rep. Mace was speaking loudly utilizing profanity at occasions for others to listen to,” the narrative of the incident reads.
“It appeared she was both dictating a message into her telephone or speaking to somebody concerning the state of affairs.”
The 2 officers tasked with ensuring Mace safely received to her gate went into extra element in separate statements.
“She instantly started loudly cursing and making derogatory feedback to us and concerning the division,” one officer wrote. “She repeatedly acknowledged we had been ‘f–king incompetent’ and ‘that is no strategy to deal with a f–king US consultant.’”
“All the stroll to gate B-8 she was cursing and complaining.”
Mace continued “her tirade” on the gate because the officers waited for her to board her flight.
The officer famous: “Every other particular person within the airport performing and speaking the way in which she did, our division would have been dispatched and we might have addressed the conduct.”
Mace’s conduct apparently left an American Airways gate agent “in disbelief,” and a TSA supervisor instructed the officers that Mace “talked to a number of TSA Brokers the identical means.”
After reviewing safety footage from the curb, the officer decided that Mace was dropped off on the airport in a special shade BMW.
In an almost equivalent account of the incident, the second officer famous that Mace acknowledged: “Tim Scott wouldn’t be f–king handled this manner,” referring to South Carolina’s junior GOP senator.
Mace’s workplace and spokesperson for her gubernatorial marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to The Submit’s request for remark.
The congresswoman referenced the incident in a sequence of X posts, together with one which seems to comprise surveillance footage of her arriving on the airport.
“BREAKING NEWS: Nancy Mace arrives on the airport – with no safety. Thanks on your consideration to this matter!” she wrote.
South Carolina Legal professional Common Alan Wilson, who’s working within the GOP major for governor in opposition to Mace, accused Mace of “disrespecting the women and men who hold our airports protected.”
Wilson described Mace’s alleged conduct as “unacceptable.”
“Legislation enforcement and TSA brokers present up daily to guard the general public, and proper now they’re not even getting paid. They deserve respect and appreciation. Not profanity. Not threats. Not tantrums,” the AG stated in a assertion.
In response, Mace tweeted: “I want Alan Wilson spent as a lot time prosecuting p*dophiles as he does spying on me on the airport.”
