Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) yelled at police and known as them “fucking incompetent” throughout a meltdown on the Charleston Worldwide Airport on Thursday, in accordance with a police report first obtained by Wired.
Mace was apparently upset after officers with the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Division arrived late to a meetup spot on the airport to escort the congresswoman.
After officers situated Mace, she started “loudly cursing and making derogatory feedback to us concerning the division,” the report, obtained by Wired, mentioned. “She repeatedly said we have been ‘Fucking incompetent,’ and ‘that is no technique to deal with a fucking US Consultant.’”
The report provides {that a} Transportation Safety Administration supervisor additionally had issues with Mace, telling officers that the congresswoman handled their workers poorly.
“Your complete stroll to gate B-8 she was cursing and complaining and infrequently doing the identical into her telephone,” an officer mentioned within the report. One other officer famous that after “a number of minutes together with her persevering with her tirade, she lastly boarded the plane.”
After Mace departed, a gate agent for American Airways instructed officers that “he was in disbelief relating to her conduct,” in accordance with the report. “He implied {that a} US Consultant shouldn’t be appearing the way in which she was.”
In an announcement to Wired and The Washington Publish, Mace’s director of operations, Cameron Morabito, mentioned they’re pressured to take Mace’s “security extraordinarily severely” following the killing of right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk.
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“Apparently, merely arriving at an airport now makes for a worthy headline,” the assertion mentioned. “We’re pressured to take the Congresswoman’s security extraordinarily severely. After the world watched Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the threats in opposition to her have solely intensified. Our safety procedures are primarily based solely on authentic security issues, and any try and politicize this actuality is each harmful and reckless.”
