The chairman of South Carolina’s Richland School District 2 board of education faces more than $51,000 in fines for ethics violations, and her refusal to resign her post is dividing the community.

Just last week, the issue prompted a physical fight after a school board meeting that resulted in two police incident reports detailing shoving, profanity, and threats to kill, WIS reports.

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The two heavily redacted incidents reports, filed on Jan. 22 and 23, center on recent revelations that Richland 2 Board Chair Amelia McKie owes more than $51,000 in fines to the South Carolina Ethics Commission for failing to submit campaign disclosure forms from her 2014 election.

Board members proposed a new rule at last Tuesday’s meeting that would allow a supermajority of members to force officers including the chairman, vice chairman or secretary to forfeit their post, though the board hasn’t yet formally adopted the idea, according to The State.

“I believe what prompted this was the ethics violations and our board chair not filing her ethics reports,” board member Lindsay Agostini said. “I will support the policy and I think at a minimum, she needs to step down.”

Others who spoke during the public comment period echoed the call for McKie to step down.

“In view of the $52,000 amount of her fines from the ethics commission, I request she hereby voluntarily step down from the board,” resident Gus Philpot said.

Board member James Manning noted that school board members “cannot remove a member of the board from the board,” only remove their title of president, vice president or secretary.

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“We don’t have that authority,” he said of removing McKie entirely. “Only the governor can do that.”

Several other folks testified at the heated meeting, both for and against McKie.

“The ethics commission has a debtors list self admittedly of about 28 pages,” supporter Myra Cunningham said. “So this isn’t anything that is uncommon with public officials and I think she has been singled out.”

McKie also apologized.

“I made a number of mistakes,” she said, according to WIS. “Some were mistakes, some were not filed on time. I am responsible, and I am not running from those problems. It is my desire to put this behind me and move forward. I’ve learned a lot from my experience. It’s a problem that certainly won’t happen again.”

The board did not vote on removing McKie from the president post, but could vote on the procedure at a future meeting. In the meantime, at least two people are pursuing assault complaints stemming from a angry exchange that boiled over after Tuesday’s meeting.

The details on who did what are sketchy, but it’s clear there was shoving, yelling, profanity and an alleged death threat.

According to WIS:

The report filed on Jan. 22 says that complaining party, who was at the meeting with her sister, would also like to press charges of simple assault on the person who “pushed Ms. [name redacted] with her hands and proceeded to yell obscene language at her and threated at both of them. In this report, it says “Ms. Mcleod stated she was in fear for her safety by Ms. [name redacted]’s actions and words.”

In the second report, filed on Jan. 23, the complainant said that the subject “became extremely aggressive and volatile” toward them and “approached him by getting in his face, calling him [redacted] along with other offensive words as well as she threatened to kill him.” She had to be restrained once by Richland 2 security officers, the second report says. The man was approached again by the woman in the parking lot. She was then restrained a second time.

“[sic] stated she was verbally disrespectful to him and others, even punching an unnamed victim in her chest area,” the report’s narrative says. “Per C/V, he does not want the subject to try and harm him or anyone in his family. C/V is concerned about the subject possibly approaching him again in a volatile and confrontational manner.”

Both reports indicate that each party is fearful of the other’s potential actions because of the events that night.