The US Secret Service has reportedly apologized to the owner of a Massachusetts hair salon after agents bugged security cameras and broke into the business while the salon owner was working a campaign fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris.
“It's a big deal,” said Alicia Powers, owner of Four One Three Salon. Business Insider The Secret Service apologized, claiming that agents left her in her building unlocked for two hours and allowed several people to use the bathroom without her permission.
Ring security camera footage, time-stamped at 8:12 a.m., shows what appears to be a Secret Service agent dressed in a black suit and white top walking onto the salon's porch, parking his car, standing on a chair and covering the recording camera with duct tape.
Additional security footage taken at 2:44 pm and 2:51 pm shows two individuals in paramedic uniforms, an individual in camouflage police uniform and an individual in a black suit and white shirt enter Powers' salon and use the restroom. The door can be seen wide open and the emergency alarm can be heard on the footage.
What's new: Kamala Harris was forced to apologize after a Secret Service team raided her salon in Massachusetts while she was attending a fundraiser nearby.
While investigators were picking the lock, a female agent was seen applying duct tape to a camera outside the store.
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According to the outlet, Powers said she felt “violated” after the incident. The salon owner said the lock on the door to the building, which she co-owns with her father, appeared to have been picked when she returned the following day.
“Anyone who was visiting, famous or not, I would probably open the door, bring them some coffee, some doughnuts and have a great afternoon,” Powers told the outlet, “but they didn't even have the audacity to ask permission and just took it.”
A spokesman for the agency later told the outlet that the Secret Service had been in “contact” with Powers, but the agency denied having entered his residence without his permission and said it would never do so. (Related: The Secret Service is more incompetent than the liberal media)
According to the outlet, the Secret Service did not deny having hidden security cameras on her.
Business Insider reported that the head of the Secret Service's Boston field office called Powers on August 1 to offer an apology, and the salon owner said the agent offered to clean up, pay the alarm company's fees, and meet her for coffee to apologize in person.
“He told me everything that had been done was very wrong,” Powers told the outlet. “You were not allowed to record on my camera without my permission. You were not allowed in the building without my permission.”
Powers' salon, which is closed for the event at the request of the Secret Service, is located behind the Colonial Theatre, where Harris held her first fundraiser since becoming the Democratic nominee.
The Daily Caller reached out to the U.S. Secret Service for comment but did not receive a response.
