‘White Male’: Nancy Mace Torched for Doxxing Innocent Student as Campus Shooter — When He Was Actually Wielding an Umbrella
(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)
Representative Nancy Mace (R-SC) faced backlash from liberals and conservatives alike for circulating an image of a University of South Carolina student she wrongly described as an “alleged shooter” during a campus lockdown that turned out to be a false alarm.
The Columbia campus was briefly thrown into panic on Sunday night after university officials issued a warning of a “credible report” of an active shooter at the library. The alert, later downgraded with an all-clear, had urged students to shelter in place. Authorities ultimately confirmed there was no evidence of gunfire.
Mace, who represents South Carolina’s 1st congressional district and whose son attends the University of South Carolina, followed up by posting a photo of an innocent man walking on campus, describing him as a “white male” wearing “black shorts, grey tshirt, backpack.”
(Screengrab via X/Nancy Mace)
The man, it soon emerged in pictures from the university, was carrying an umbrella. Mace deleted her tweet.
The congresswoman was nevertheless torched online for being so quick to publish the image.
Gun control activist Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter was killed in the Parkland high school shooting, warned that the “false post” could have “gotten someone killed.”
Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh also mocked Mace: “Really grateful for Nancy Mace. She bravely alerted the public to the dangers of a guy carrying an umbrella.”
Later, as the online fury continued, Mace wrote that the scare had been “terrifying” for students and their families, adding that now was “an appropriate time to talk about hardened security at schools of all grades, colleges and universities.”
She also shared that she’d been “frantically calling” her own child throughout the ordeal and thanked law enforcement for their response.
University officials confirmed to a local news outlet that there were no major injuries, aside from minor incidents during the evacuation.
