A Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Kamala Harris brawled with several other agents on Monday morning, the agency confirmed.
The altercation took place around 9 a.m. near Joint Base Andrews on the outskirts of Washington DC, prior to Harris’ arrival on the scene.
The agent in question, whose identity has not been revealed, was immediately “removed from their assignment,” the Secret Service told The Post.
“A US Secret Service special agent supporting the Vice President’s departure from Joint Base Andrews began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing,” Anthony Guglielmi, chief of communications for the US Secret Service, said to The Post.
“The US Secret Service takes the safety and health of our employees very seriously.”
Medical personnel were called onto the scene, per Guglielmi. That agent had been at Joint Base Andrews to support Harris’ planned departure, but ultimately the scuffle did not delay her travel.
Guglielmi added because it was a “medical matter,” the department would not “disclose any further details.”
Harris traveled to New York City where she was scheduled to tape an interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show.”
The agent who instigated the fight was armed and grew aggressive with others, the Washington Examiner reported. A detail shift supervisor and special agent in charge pushed him to cool off, but then a fight broke out, according to the report.
That agent acted “erratically” when he arrived on the scene and eventually got on top of the special agent in charge of the vice president, then began punching him, RealClearPolitics reported.
Afterward, that unnamed agent was then reportedly handcuffed and received medical attention.
BREAKING: Sources within the Secret Service community tell me the agent assigned to VP Kamala Harris was armed during the fight – that the gun was secured in the agent’s holster until other agents physically restrained the agent and took the gun from the agent’s possession.
I’m… https://t.co/kxLLOlFy4b— Susan Crabtree (@susancrabtree) April 24, 2024
Following the blow-up, some questioned the hiring process behind that agent, including any assessment of that individual’s background, according to RealClearPolitics.
There had also apparently been longstanding concerns about the agent in question prior to Monday’s incident, per the report.
Harris was notified about the situation, according to Guglielmi.
