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.

“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 Business Insider. “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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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.

“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 told BI.

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“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.

Powers told the outlet that an EMS worker later told her the Secret Service agent in charge of security that day “was telling people to come in and use the bathroom.” The Secret Service told BI that its agents “would not” have used the building without permission, but they acknowledged that an agent had taped over the camera.

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“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,” Powers told BI. “But they didn’t even have the audacity to ask for permission. They just helped themselves.”

The building’s landlord, Brian Smith, says no one gave the Secret Service officers permission to use the building or even enter it.

“Me and my dad own the building, and I have a crazy eccentric guy that lives upstairs,” Smith told BI. “And he didn’t tell the Secret Service they could use it, and I didn’t tell them, and my father didn’t tell them, and they had no permission to go in there whatsoever.”

Powers says a representative for the Secret Service’s Boston field office called her to apologize after BI contacted the agency about the incident.

“He said to me everything that was done was done very wrong,” Powers told the outlet. “They were not supposed to tape my camera without permission. They were not supposed to enter the building without permission.”

Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid largely defended her when asked to define the Democratic nominee’s stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, held a campaign rally Friday in Arizona, followed by another Saturday in neighboring Nevada.

At Harris’ Glendale, Arizona, rally, Angela from Arizona defended Harris, adding that both sides of the aisle should agree that Hamas is the major problem.

“First of all, she’s married to a Jewish guy,” Angela said. “She is for humanity — period. 

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“Whatever side of the coin you’re on, and not only that, it was Hamas — those are the bad people doing stuff to people, not the Palestinians [who are] trying to survive.”

Angela said Harris wants to make sure Palestinian civilians are kept safe, adding that Israel rightly has an “Iron Dome” defense system.

“Even though we have different ethnic backgrounds and different ideologies of our religion, it’s one race, one humankind,” she said.

On Saturday, Ashlyn from Las Vegas said Harris understands that what is going on in Gaza is a “complete atrocity,” adding “a cease-fire has to happen now.”

“I think that she’s going to be very wise, making sure that it happens diplomatically, whether that’s more progressive or more moderate, I don’t know,” she said.

Ashlyn said the issue is so controversial it must be faced from a moderate perspective with the hope of a “progressive” outcome.

“I trust she can do that because she’s been listening to her voters,” she added.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the chamber of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol July 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

Farther along the line outside the Thomas & Mack Center at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Graydon said Harris is taking a more pro-Israel stance.

As for voters who may take issue with that, he suggested, it is important to contrast Harris’ position with that of former President Trump.

“Each side obviously will have its faults, but it [will] lead to a better end to the conflict by voting for Harris,” he said.

At Friday’s rally near Phoenix, R.J., who hails from the Grand Canyon State, spoke out about both the Israel-Gaza conflict and the border and where Harris stands on each.

R.J. said she has heard Harris speak in a way that suggests she wants a “two-state solution” and that the current vice president is only the latest top official to try to forge peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

On the border issue, R.J. dismissed claims Harris was ever named “border czar” and defended the nominee against Republicans’ claims she has not acted to blunt the crisis.

“Harris has crossed the border,” she said. “She went into countries and had conversations about the basic issues there. ‘Why are people leaving your country the way they are and coming [to the U.S.]?’ And they worked on those issues, which is what she is supposed to be doing.”

Scott Kirkland, from Henderson, Nev., was in line Saturday to see Harris in nearby Las Vegas.

Pro-Israel supporters outside NYU’s Stern School of Business in Manhattan, N.Y. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)

Asked to define and speak on Harris’ Israel-Gaza approach, Kirkland said she has put forth a position of moderation.

“What’s really happening there is that you’re starting to see war crimes creep in on the part of the Israeli government, and particularly with the IDF, and particularly in the case of indiscriminate bombing of many of the locations in the Palestinian area,” Kirkland said.

“Do I believe that Hamas is a terrorist organization? Most certainly.

“Kidnapping … is pure criminal behavior. So, is there room for improvement on both sides? Yes. Do I believe that Kamala’s position is a legitimate one? I do.”

On Friday, a rallygoer in Phoenix said she was the first Jewish superintendent of Peoria, Arizona, schools.

“I broke that ceiling,” she said. “[Harris] is pro-Israel. She has done everything pro-Israel, but these babies in Palestine who are getting killed. They have to be looked out for too.”

The woman also noted Harris’ marriage to second gentleman Douglas Emhoff, who is Jewish.

Another Harris supporter in Phoenix, when asked to define Harris’ stance on the conflict, said only, “They both should stop fighting.”

Top job: California controller
Biggest splash: During Yee’s tenure as controller, her agency uncovered tens of millions of dollars of local government misspending and questionable financial practices at state agencies.
Particulars: Yee, 66, was born to Chinese immigrant parents and grew up in San Francisco, where the family lived in a one-room apartment behind their dry cleaning business. Yee lives in the Bay Area with her husband, Rabbi Steven B. Jacobs. She is a Democrat.
Campaign launch: March 2024

Yee served as state budget director under former Gov. Davis before winning a seat on the California State Board of Equalization in 2006 and again in 2010. She was elected state controller in 2014. Her audits and investigations from the controller’s office, she said, found more than $4 billion in misused funds. She won reelection in 2018, and her second term ended in January 2023.

Yee has emphasized her financial background and budget experience, both of which could appeal to California voters as the state grapples with a historic shortfall. Budget projections suggest the next governor could walk into a challenging fiscal environment if state revenue doesn’t rebound.

When she announced her campaign, Yee spoke about how her modest beginnings crystallized her focus on the importance of financial health. As a young girl, she managed the books of the family business and saw firsthand how a bad week meant cutting back on groceries and other essential spending for her and her five siblings, she said.

A 2022 Times report detailed how Yee gave behind-the-scenes advice to a politically connected company seeking a $600-million no-bid government contract to provide COVID-19 masks and raised questions about her involvement. Yee has said that she had no financial interest in the contract and that the advice was the same she would offer any business owners.

Yee serves as a vice chair of the California Democratic Party.