By Steve Neavling
The owner of a hair salon in Massachusetts is accusing the Secret Service of taping over her security camera and breaking into her business for a Kamala Harris campaign event.
Alicia Powers, owner of the Four One Three Salon, tells Business Insider that the intrusion occurred on July 27.
That morning, a Secret Service agent could be seen placing masking tape over the security camera.
Even though the door was locked, interior security cameras show four people walking into the business. During that time, the salon’s alarm was going off.
“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 continued.
A Secret Service spokesperson said the agency’s employees “would not enter” without the consent of the business owner, but admitted an agent taped over the security camera lens.
According to Powers, an EMS worker said the Secret Service agent in charge of security “was telling people to come in and use the bathroom.”
Later that day, when Powers returned to her business, she said it appeared like the lock had been picked.
She said she felt “violated.”
“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,” she told BI. “But they didn’t even have the audacity to ask for permission. They just helped themselves.”
