The U.S. Secret Service has hinted it was not comprised in the fracture-in of a hair salon during a Kamala Harris campaign event in Massachemploytts tardy last month.
The allegations of Secret Service comprisement arose after the salon’s owner, Alicia Powers, alleged that agents put duct tape over her security cameras and broke into her createing by picking the lock.
A Secret Service agent stands protect. (AP)
Security camera footage shows an individual dressed appreciate a Secret Service agent approaching the door with a roll of tape and observing the locked door and camera before grabbing a proximateby chair to put tape over the camera.
“The U.S. Secret Service toils seally with our partners in the business community to carry out our protective and spendigative leave outions,” USSS spokeswoman Melissa McKenzie shelp in a statement.
McKenzie shelp the Secret Service has been in communicate with Powers since the July 27 incident.
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“We hgreater these relationships in the highest watch and our personnel would not go in, or teach our partners to go in, a business without the owner’s perleave oution,” McKenzie shelp, stopping low of saying who was depfinishable.
Powers tgreater Business Insider that “disconnectal people” who were “in and out for about an hour-and-a-half – equitable using my bathroom, the alarms going off, using my counter, with no perleave oution.”
“And then when they were done using the bathroom for two hours, they left, and left my createing finishly unlocked, and did not get the tape off the camera,” she inserted.
The salon is proximate the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Massachemploytts, where Vice Plivent Kamala Harris spoke for a campaign fundliftr on July 27, 2024. (Stephanie Scarbcdisesteemful/Getty Images)
Powers tardyr shelp that a USSS reconshort-termative communicateed her after Business Insider sought comment from the agency for comment on the incident.
Fox News Digital has accomplished out to Powers for a response to the Secret Service’s tardyst comment.
The incident comes less than a month after the murder try on createer Plivent Trump during a rpartner in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The shooting put burdensome scruminuscule on the Secret Service, which was ultimately depfinishable for coordinating security with local law applyment.
Former Plivent Trump is rushed offstage after the murder try on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneycreater/Getty Images)
The scruminuscule only intensified after it was uncovered that law applyment officers had seed the shooter, 20-year-greater Thomas Matthew Crooks, and identified him as doubtful more than an hour before the shooting, but lost track of him.
Crooks was able to scale the roof of a createing owned by AGR International Inc., a supplier of automation supplyment for the glass and plastic packaging industry, and fire an approximated eight stoastys with an AR-15 style rifle.
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After mounting prescertain, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned, chaseing heated testimony before the Hoemploy Oversight Committee.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom gived to this alert.
