While the Secret Service isn't great at stopping shooters from shooting the former president of the United States, they are pretty good at covering up security cameras at local salons, breaking into them, and using them as public bathrooms for a few hours.
Not joking. This is a real thing that happened in Massachusetts during a Harris campaign fundraiser.
Don't believe it? There's video:
The U.S. Secret Service was forced to apologize to a Massachusetts salon owner after using her building's bathroom without permission ahead of a fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris last week.
The salon owner, Alicia Powers, says Secret Service agents put duct tape over her security cameras and broke into her building by picking the lock. They then allowed various people to use the salon's bathroom over a two-hour period.
Powers told Business Insider that she was aware she had to close her salon but was not informed about the Secret Service's other plans …
Footage from the salon's front-door Ring security camera shows a Secret Service agent approaching the door with a roll of tape and observing the locked door and the camera. The agent then grabbed a nearby chair and stood on it to tape over the security camera.
Initially, the salon was going to remain open during the fundraiser, but with all the riff raff resulting from Veep's campaign event, they decided to close — although they would remain open as a public bathroom for two hours after SS broke in.
The owner of the salon, Alicia Powers, tells us a little more of the story:
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…
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.
The Secret Service has reached out to Powers to apologize.
Is that all you have to do when you're a privileged government entity that breaks the law and can't do its job?
(Bonus question: Do you think the 3rd Amendment ban on quartering government military forces applies to bodyguards breaking into private property to use the bathroom?)
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