A Secret Service agent snapped, began throwing menstrual pads and attacked her superior after being assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ security detail.
Secret Service Chief of Communications Anthony Guglielmi issued a statement after the incident on Monday, noting that the agent, now identified as Michelle Herczeg, appeared distressed as she awaited Harris’ arrival:
“At approximately 9 a.m. April 22, a U.S. Secret Service special agent supporting the vice president’s departure from Joint Base Andrews began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing. The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned.”
According to the statement, Harris had not yet arrived at the airport at time Agent Herczeg snapped.
Still, since reports have not revealed whether or not Herczeg had ever had any previous contact with the vice president, it is not clear whether she had ever been subjected first-hand to Harris’ infamously grating laugh or widely-mocked commentaries.
In fact, so many Americans are so offended by Kamala Harris' personality that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has begun conducting focus groups to find out what can be done about it.
Regardless of the cause of her meltdown, Agent Herczeg’s behavior was, indeed, “distressing,” including:
- Physically assaulting the security detail’s commanding officer,
- Throwing menstrual pads at a fellow agent,
- Grabbing, and deleting applications from, another agent’s phone,
- Hiding behind a curtain,
- Screaming out the names of female officers she believed were coming to her aid, and
- Telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God”
Herczeg was wearing a gun at the time of the attack on her superior, but her assault was purely physical: she chest-bumped, shoved, tackled and punched him, before being subdued, disarmed and handcuffed.
Immediately following the incident, Herzczeg was removed from her assignment on Vice President Harris’ security detail, the Secret Service told The New York Post.