The Secret Service entered the local business to use the bathroom before Kamala's fundraiser [VIDEO]

The US Secret Service has issued an apology to Alicia Powers, the owner of a salon in Massachusetts after agents broke in and used the bathroom in his building without permission before a fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris last week.

Powers reported that Secret Service agents not only used the bathroom in her lounge, but also taped up her security cameras and broke into the building by picking the lock.

The US Secret Service is apologizing to a Massachusetts salon owner after an agent covered his security camera with duct tape and broke into his salon by picking the lock so multiple people could use his bathroom for a period of two hours

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Officers allowed several people to use the bathroom over a two-hour period.

Powers told Business Insider, “They had a bunch of people in and out of here doing a couple of bomb bars again; they totally understand what they have to do, because of the nature of the situation. At the time , my team felt it was a bit chaotic and we made the decision to close on Saturday.”

Footage from the lounge's Ring security camera shows a Secret Service agent approaching the door with duct tape, covering the camera and then entering the building. Powers described the scene: “There were several people coming in and out for about an hour and a half, just using my bathroom, setting off alarms, using my counter, without permission.”

When Secret Service agents left, they left the building unlocked and did not remove the camera tape, according to Powers.

Powers also reported that an EMS worker informed him that the Secret Service agent in charge was ordering people to use the bathroom. The Secret Service has admitted that an agent recorded the camera, but claimed that the agents would not have used the building without permission.

Powers added: “Whoever was visiting, celebrity or not, would probably have opened the door and made them coffee and brought donuts to make it a great evening for them. But they didn't even have the nerve to ask permission. They've only helped themselves.”

The building's owner, Brian Smith, confirmed that neither he nor his father, who co-owns the building, gave permission for the Secret Service to enter. Smith said, “My father and I own the building, and I have a crazy eccentric man who lives upstairs. And he didn't tell the Secret Service they could use it, and I didn't tell them, and my father did not tell them, and they had no permission to enter.

After Business Insider contacted the Secret Service, a representative from the Boston field office called Powers to apologize, acknowledging that the agents' actions were inappropriate. Powers relayed the representative's apology: “He told me that everything that was done was done very badly. They shouldn't be recording my camera without permission. They should not enter the building without permission.”