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The U.S. Secret Service has hinted it was not concerned within the break-in of a hair salon throughout a Kamala Harris marketing campaign occasion in Massachusetts late final month.
The allegations of Secret Service involvement arose after the salon’s proprietor, Alicia Powers, alleged that brokers put duct tape over her safety cameras and broke into her constructing by choosing the lock.
A Secret Service agent stands guard. (AP)
Security digicam footage reveals a person dressed like a Secret Service agent approaching the door with a roll of tape and observing the locked door and digicam earlier than grabbing a close-by chair to place tape over the digicam.
“The U.S. Secret Service works closely with our partners in the business community to carry out our protective and investigative missions,” USSS spokeswoman Melissa McKenzie mentioned in a press release.
McKenzie mentioned the Secret Service has been involved with Powers for the reason that July 27 incident.
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“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,” McKenzie mentioned, stopping wanting saying who was accountable.
Powers instructed Business Insider that “several people” who had been “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,” she added.
The salon is close to the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the place Vice President Kamala Harris spoke for a marketing campaign fundraiser on July 27, 2024. (Stephanie Scarbrough/Getty Images)
Powers later mentioned {that a} USSS consultant contacted her after Business Insider sought remark from the company for touch upon the incident.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Powers for a response to the Secret Service’s newest remark.
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The incident comes lower than a month after the assassination try on former President Trump throughout a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The capturing put heavy scrutiny on the Secret Service, which was in the end liable for coordinating safety with native legislation enforcement.
Former President Trump is rushed offstage after the assassination try on July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The scrutiny solely intensified after it was revealed that legislation enforcement officers had noticed the shooter, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, and recognized him as suspicious greater than an hour earlier than the capturing, however misplaced monitor of him.
Crooks was in a position to scale the roof of a constructing owned by AGR International Inc., a provider of automation tools for the glass and plastic packaging trade, and hearth an estimated eight pictures with an AR-15 model rifle.
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After mounting stress, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned, following heated testimony earlier than the House Oversight Committee.
Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.
