Nancy Mays Curses, Pirates Confound Cops in Airport Collapse: Police Report

Nancy Mays, The Republican congressman from South Carolina unleashed a tirade against law enforcement at Charleston International Airport on Thursday, WIRED has learned.

According to an incident report obtained by WIRED under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act, mace He cursed police officers and repeatedly made insulting comments toward them. The report says that A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) The supervisor told the officers that Mays treated their employees similarly, and that they would report her to their supervisors.

According to the report, Charleston County Aviation Authority Police Department officers were assigned to meet Mays at 6:30 a.m. to escort her from the pier to her flight, and she was told she would arrive in a white BMW at the ticket area. At about 6:35, the report says, they were told it would be late; They never saw the car arrive.

The report stated that shortly before 7:00 a.m., dispatch informed officers that Mace was at the entrance to the Known Crew Member (KCM) program — a smaller TSA-supervised trusted access checkpoint designated for flight crew members.

When officers quickly found her, according to a supplemental incident report filed by one of the officers, the congresswoman immediately “began cursing loudly and making derogatory comments to us about the department. She repeatedly stated that we were ‘incompetent,'” and “this is no way to treat a f***ing American representative,” the report said.

When officers escorted her to her gate, according to the report, she brought a fellow South Carolina state senator into the fight.

“She also said we would never treat Tim Scott that way,” one of the officers assigned to accompany Mays says in the report.

“Throughout the trip to Gate B-8, she was cursing and complaining, often doing the same on her phone,” an officer wrote in the report. In the main incident report, an officer noted Mays was screaming into her phone, either during a phone call or dictating text messages. “After standing near the B-8 for several minutes as she continued her tirades, she finally boarded the plane.”

After Mays’ flight took off, the report said, an American Airlines gate agent approached the officers. According to the report, “He stated that he was in disbelief regarding her behavior. He implied that the United States representative should not have behaved in this way.”

Officers checked with the TSA supervisor, who told officers “he was very upset by the way you behaved at the checkpoint,” the report states. According to the report, that supervisor told officers that Mays “spoke to multiple TSA agents in the same manner” and that they would “report to his superiors about her unacceptable behavior.” TSA agents are not currently getting paid in full, due to the ongoing government shutdown.