By New York Post. . .The Secret Service apologized to a salon owner in Massachusetts who alleged that individuals broke into her business to use the bathroom during the agency’s security work for a nearby Veep Kamala Harris fundraiser.
Berkshires businesswoman Alicia Powers says someone picked the lock and broke into her store for the bathroom — after a Secret Service officer covered a camera outside her salon with tape.
The people who proceeded to use the bathroom included a pair in emergency medical uniforms, a person in camouflage law-enforcement gear and someone in a dark suit and white shirt similar to a Secret Service officer who guarded the door, Powers said, citing footage.
A Secret Service rep was adamant that agents would not break into buildings like that — but did not deny that an officer covered her camera with tape, an act that was captured by surveillance footage, and appeared to cop some sort of mea culpa in a statement.
“The Secret Service has since communicated with the affected business owner. We hold these relationships in the highest regard and our personnel would not enter, or instruct our partners to enter, a business without the owner’s permission,” Secret Service spokesperson Melissa McKenzie said. (Read more from “Secret Service Apologizes to Salon Owner Over Break-In, Bathroom Use During Kamala Harris Event” HERE)
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Reports: Secret Service Broke Into Salon, Used Bathroom During Harris Campaign Stop in Pittsfield
By Ross Cristantiello. When Vice President Kamala Harris stopped by Pittsfield last month for a campaign event, Secret Service agents reportedly taped over a security camera at a nearby salon and broke in to use a bathroom.
The incident surprised the salon’s owner, who told local news outlet iBerkshires that agents caused the business’s alarm to go off for hours and left a mess in their wake.
Four One Three Salon is situated very close to the Colonial Theatre, where Harris held her campaign event. Alicia Powers, the salon’s owner, said that security ramped up well before the event. The business was the subject of bomb sweeps, and she decided to keep it closed on the day of the Harris event, per iBerkshires.
That morning, Powers saw security footage of someone placing tape over an outside security camera. Later on, she saw through other cameras that the business was being used by Secret Service agents and EMS workers.
Powers had reportedly left her business locked, but the Secret Service were able to gain access anyway. (Read more from “Reports: Secret Service Broke Into Salon, Used Bathroom During Harris Campaign Stop in Pittsfield” HERE)
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