Rep. Nancy Mace allegedly berated and cursed at law enforcement officials tasked with escorting her by Charleston Worldwide Airport in South Carolina on Thursday, allegedly saying they had been “[expletive] incompetent,” in keeping with an incident report.
Based on a police incident report, officers with the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Division had been assigned to satisfy the Republican congresswoman at 6:30 a.m. Thursday to escort her from the curb to her flight. The officers had been informed she can be arriving in a white BMW on the ticketing curb space.
At round 6:35 a.m., they had been informed she was working late and so they stored ready. Based on the report, the officers by no means noticed the automobile arrive.
Surveillance video from the airport obtained by CBS Information through the Freedom of Data Act exhibits Mace arrive at a sidewalk entrance in a dark-colored sedan round 6:50 a.m. Nobody else was seen within the car.
Round 7 a.m., the officers had been knowledgeable that Mace, 47, was on the entrance for the Recognized Crewmember program – a trusted entry lane overseen by the Transportation Safety Administration and meant for flight crew members. The report mentioned the officers made their approach over “in lower than a minute.”
A separate surveillance video from the airport appeared to point out Mace on the TSA safety checkpoint talking with airport officers. It took about seven minutes from the time Mace first appeared on the TSA entrance to when the escorting officers arrived, in keeping with the video.
When the officers met Mace to escort her, they mentioned she “started loudly cursing and making derogatory feedback to us and in regards to the division. She repeatedly acknowledged we had been ‘(expletive) incompetent”‘ and ‘that is no option to deal with a (expletive) US Consultant’,” the report states.
“She additionally mentioned we’d by no means deal with (U.S. Sen.) Tim Scott like this,” the officer tasked with escorting Mace says within the report.
Police mentioned Mace allegedly cursed and complained on the officers and into her telephone throughout the whole stroll to her gate. After she boarded her flight, an airline worker and a number of other different TSA brokers mentioned they had been shocked and upset by her conduct on the safety checkpoint and gate, the officer says within the report.
“Every other individual within the airport appearing and speaking the best way she did, our division would have been dispatched, and we might have addressed the conduct,” the officer mentioned within the report.
On X, Mace appeared to reply to a part of the story, sharing the surveillance video exhibiting her arrival on the airport, adopted by her standing within the TSA screening space “with no safety.”
“And for the FAKE NEWS: That is the doorway ALL Members of Congress use on the airport,” she wrote. “Are you going to put in writing that Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott use the identical entrance or no?”
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The congresswoman’s director of operations, Cameron Morabito, informed CBS Information in a brief assertion on Saturday that “apparently, merely arriving at an airport makes headlines for those who’re main the race for governor.
“We’re pressured to take the Congresswoman’s security extraordinarily significantly. After the world watched Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the threats in opposition to her have solely intensified,” the assertion mentioned. “Our safety procedures are primarily based solely on authentic security considerations, and any try and politicize this actuality is each harmful and reckless.”
Morabito’s assertion didn’t tackle the alleged feedback made by Mace to the police escort officers.
Mace first got here to Congress in 2021 and has gained recognition as a GOP firebrand in latest months after shifting positions lately. She launched her campaign for governor of South Carolina in August.
