When you gotta go, you gotta go?
The U.S. Secret Service was forced to apologize after its agents used a Massachusetts salon’s bathroom without permission ahead of a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, reported Fox News Digital News.
Salon owner Alicia Powers told Business Insider that Secret Service agents put duct tape over her outside security cameras and broke into her building by picking the lock. They allowed various people to use the salon’s bathroom over a two-hour period.
Powers added she was aware she had to close her salon for the event but wasn’t told about the bathroom usage.
“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 told the outlet.
“And at that point, my team felt like it was a little bit chaotic, and we just made the decision to close for Saturday.”
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Powers confirmed she got an apology from the Secret Service’s Boston office.
“The U.S. Secret Service works closely with our partners in the business community to carry out our protective and investigative missions. The Secret Service has since communicated with the affected business owner,” agency spokesperson Melissa McKenzie told Fox News Digital.
“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.”
Powers said an EMS worker later told her the Secret Service agent in charge that day “was telling people to come in and use the bathroom.
“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.
The Secret Service insisted its agents would not have used the building without permission, but admitted an agent had taped over the camera.