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Nancy Mace, the<\/span> South Carolina Republican congresswoman, unleashed a tirade against law enforcement at the Charleston International Airport on Thursday, WIRED has learned.<\/p>\n According to an incident report obtained by WIRED under South Carolina\u2019s Freedom of Information Act, Mace<\/a> cursed at police officers, making repeated derogatory comments toward them. The report says that a Transportation Security Administration<\/a> (TSA) supervisor told officers that Mace had treated their staff similarly and that they would be reporting her to their superiors.<\/p>\n According to the report, officers with the Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department were tasked with meeting Mace at 6:30 am to escort her from the curb to her flight and had been told that she would be arriving in a white BMW at the ticketing curb area. Around 6:35, the report says, they were told she was running late; they never saw the car arrive.<\/p>\n Shortly before 7 am, the report stated, dispatch told the officers that Mace was at the entrance for the Known Crewmember program\u2014a trusted access lane with a smaller checkpoint overseen by the TSA and intended for flight crew members.<\/p>\n When officers quickly located her, according to a supplemental incident report filed by one of the officers, the congresswoman immediately began \u201cloudly cursing and making derogatory comments to us about the department. She repeatedly stated we were \u2018Fucking incompetent,\u2019 and \u2018this is no way to treat a fucking US Representative,\u2019\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n As officers escorted her to her gate, according to the report, she brought a South Carolina Senate colleague into the fracas.<\/p>\n \u201cShe also said we would never treat Tim Scott like this,\u201d says one officer tasked with escorting Mace says in the report.<\/p>\n \u201cThe entire walk to gate B-8 she was cursing and complaining and often doing the same into her phone,\u201d an officer writes in the report. In the main incident report, an officer notes that Mace was yelling into her phone, either on a phone call or dictating text messages. \u201cAfter standing in the vicinity of B-8 for several minutes with her continuing her tirade, she finally boarded the aircraft.\u201d<\/p>\n After Mace\u2019s flight took off, the report states, an American Airlines gate agent approached the officers. According to the report, he \u201cstated he was in disbelief regarding her behavior. He implied that a US Representative should not be acting the way she was.\u201d<\/p>\n The report goes on to state that officers checked with a TSA supervisor, who told the officers \u201che was very upset with how she acted at the checkpoint.\u201d This supervisor, according to the report, told the officers that Mace had \u201ctalked to several TSA agents the same way\u201d and that they would be \u201csubmitting a report to his superiors about her unacceptable behavior.\u201d TSA agents are not currently being fully paid, due to the ongoing government shutdown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n