Charleston County Aviation Authority police officers filed an incident report in connection with Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) on Thursday after she allegedly went off on law enforcement in a profanity-ridden tirade at Charleston International Airport.
Police were to meet with Mace at 6:30 a.m. to escort her from the curb to her flight, according to a police report. Officers were told she would arrive in a white BMW, but they were told at 6:35 a.m. that she would be arriving late.
While they never saw the car, dispatchers told the officers before 7 a.m. that she was at the entrance for the Known Crewmember program, the report stated. The officers approached her, “and she immediately began loudly cursing and making derogatory comments to us and about the department,” according to the report.
“She repeatedly stated we were ‘F—ing incompetent,’ and ‘this is no way to treat a f—ing U.S. Representative,’” the report read. “She also said we would never treat [Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.)] like this.”
She was allegedly “cursing and complaining,” as well as yelling into her phone, during the walk to the gate, police wrote. This continued while at waiting at the gate for several minutes before she boarded her flight.
“After the aircraft departed the gate, the American Airlines Gate Agent approached us and stated he was in disbelief regarding her behavior,” according to the report. “He implied that a U.S. Representative should not be acting the way she was.”
The officer who wrote the report said they reviewed the video of the curb where she was expected to arrive and did not see a white BMW arrive at the expected time. A gray or silver BMW appeared at 6:51 a.m. at the atrium crosswalk, the officer wrote.
Additionally, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) supervisor told officers that he was “very upset” about how Mace acted at the checkpoint, police wrote in the their report. The supervisor told them that Mace spoke with several TSA agents and they would file a report “about her unacceptable behavior” to their superiors.
“Any other person in the airport acting and talking the way she did, our department would have been [dispatched] and we would have addressed the behavior,” the report concludes.
The Hill has reached out to Mace’s office for comment.
Mace posted a video on the social platform X showing her arrival at the airport, followed by her standing in the passenger screening area “with no security.”
“And for the FAKE NEWS: This is the entrance ALL Members of Congress use at the airport,” she wrote. “Are you going to write that [Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.)] and Tim Scott use the same entrance or no?”
She concluded the post with “Asking for a friend” and tagged the local newspaper The Post and Courier.
