Secret Service Agent Caught on Camera Putting Duct Tape Over Security Camera
Aug 11, 2024 - 8:00pm // The Blake Moia Show
The Secret Service was forced to apologize to a Massachusetts salon owner after breaking into her business to use the bathroom ahead of a fundraiser for Kamala Harris last week.
The Secret Service Had "No Permission" to Enter the Building
Four One Three Salon owner Alicia Powers claims the Secret Service agents put duct tape over her security cameras and broke into her building by picking the lock, then allowed numerous people to use the salon’s bathroom over a two-hour period.
Powers told Business Insider she knew the building would need to be closed for the event in Pittsfield since agents were securing the area.
“They had a bunch of people in and out of here doing a couple of bomb sweeps again – totally understand what they have to do, due to the nature of the situation,” Powers said.
“And at that point, my team felt like it was a little bit chaotic, and we just made the decision to close for Saturday.”
Footage from the salon’s front-door Ring security camera shows a Secret Service agent approaching the door with a roll of tape and casing the locked door and the camera before standing on a nearby chair to tape over the security camera.
Quicker to Apologize for this than the Trump Assassination Attempt
The Secret Service reportedly told Business Insider that its agents “would not” have used the building without permission, but they admitted that an agent had taped over the camera.
But the salon owner said the Secret Service didn’t ask for her permission at all, hence picking the lock of her business.
“There were several people in and out for about an hour-and-a-half – just using my bathroom, the alarms going off, using my counter, with no permission,” Powers said.
“And then when they were done using the bathroom for two hours, they left, and left my building completely unlocked, and did not take the tape off the camera,” she added.
"Some Red Coat Shit Right Here"
Surveillance camera shows a Secret Service Agent covering up a camera lense with duct tape during a campaign event for Kamala Harris. Agents used the salon in order to use the bathroom. The video was obtained and blurred out by the Business Insider.
More Questions Than Answers
“Whoever was visiting, whether it was a celebrity or not, I probably would’ve opened the door and made them coffee and brought in donuts to make it a great afternoon for them,” Powers told BI. “But they didn’t even have the audacity to ask for permission. They just helped themselves.”
The building’s landlord, Brian Smith also confirmed the Secret Service didn’t ask permission to access the building.
“Me and my dad own the building, and I have a crazy eccentric guy that lives upstairs,” Smith told the Business Insider. “...and he didn’t tell the Secret Service they could use it, and I didn’t tell them, and my father didn’t tell them, and they had no permission to go in there whatsoever.”
A representative for the Secret Service’s Boston Field Office did reach out to Powers and apologized, and even offered to have the salon cleaned and pay her alarm company bill for the day — but only after the agency was contacted by the media about the incident.
“He said to me everything that was done was done very wrong,” Powers told the outlet. “They were not supposed to tape my camera without permission. They were not supposed to enter the building without permission.”
The Secret Service is currently embroiled in controversy and public scrutiny after the agency failed to protect Donald Trump from an assassination attempt on July 13.
Shooter Thomas Crooks managed to strike the former president in the ear after firing several shots from a close distance before he was taken out by a sniper.
Disgraced Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle resigned over a week later.
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