{"id":15253,"date":"2025-11-05T00:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/it-is-never-acceptable-to-berate-police-officers-tim-scott-hits-back-at-nancy-mace-over-airport-security-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T00:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:16:38","slug":"it-is-never-acceptable-to-berate-police-officers-tim-scott-hits-back-at-nancy-mace-over-airport-security-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/it-is-never-acceptable-to-berate-police-officers-tim-scott-hits-back-at-nancy-mace-over-airport-security-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"‘It is never acceptable to berate police officers’: Tim Scott hits back at Nancy Mace over airport security incident"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) chided Rep. Nancy Mace\u2019s (R-S.C.) on Tuesday for her confrontation with airport security, after the House member claimed she was treated unfairly by agents at the Charleston International Airport.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday evening Facebook post<\/a>, Scott said Mace had invoked his name \u201cfor reasons that are unclear\u201d and that his experiences at the airport had been positive \u201cwithout exception.\u201d He also thanked airport police for taking extra security precautions due to death threats lobbed against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is never acceptable to berate police officers, airport staff, and TSA agents who are simply doing their jobs, nor is it becoming of a Member of Congress to use such vulgar language when dealing with constituents,\u201d Scott wrote.<\/p>\n

The statement comes after an altercation last week, in which Mace \u201cbegan loudly cursing and making derogatory comments\u201d toward airport security, according to an incident report filed by a police officer. The confrontation apparently occurred when Mace attempted to use a restricted entrance following a mix-up about the vehicle she arrived in.<\/p>\n

According to the report, Mace \u2014 who is running for governor in South Carolina \u2014 also said the security \u201cwould never treat Tim Scott like this\u201d and berated TSA agents.<\/p>\n

Mace has repeatedly criticized the security officials involved and defended her actions since Wired first reported the incident<\/a>, accusing an American Airlines gate agent and several officers of conspiring to lie on the report and vowing legal action against them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll federally elected officials including Senators Scott and Graham use the same Crew Member Access Point at airports,\u201d she wrote in one post<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the federal security protocol. Maybe check your facts next time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mace has posted on social media about the incident more than a dozen times, calling on Charleston International Airport CEO Elliott Summey and others to resign.<\/p>\n

Scott also wrote that he does not use profanity \u201cin public or private\u201d and that members of Congress work for law enforcement, not vice versa.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor those who want to invoke my name, please have the courtesy to note my actions and how I treat police officers, TSA agents, and fellow travelers with the respect they deserve,\u201d Scott wrote in the post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) chided Rep. Nancy Mace\u2019s (R-S.C.) on Tuesday for her confrontation with airport security, after the House member claimed she was treated unfairly by agents at the Charleston International Airport. In a Tuesday evening Facebook post, Scott said Mace had invoked his name \u201cfor reasons that are unclear\u201d and that his experiences […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}