Two female U.S. Secret Service agents have been placed on suspension after brawling outside the home of former President Barack Obama before Memorial Day weekend, an embarrassing fiasco for an agency still digging out from underneath last year’s near-fatal assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.
Video of the fistfight shows two of the agency’s Uniformed Division Officers fighting following a failed shift change. The two were stationed outside Obama’s private residence in Washington, D.C.
Audio from the clip appears to indicate that once female agent, upset the other was late for her shift change, can be overheard asking for a supervisor “immediately before” she “whoop this girl’s ass.”
The upset Secret Service agent took up a hostile posture, confronting her replacement about why she was late just seconds before fists began flying.
“Can I get a supervisor out here… immediately before I whoop this girl’s ass?” the agent radios in around 2:30 a.m. early Wednesday morning, according to sources who spoke with investigative journalist Susan Crabtree.
“It’s unclear whether either woman was injured or whether they will be disciplined over the altercation. The fight did not wake anyone in the Obama residence or the surrounding neighborhood,” Crabtree stated on X. “The incident is raising new concerns among fellow Secret Service agents and officers about the agency’s lowering of hiring standards during years of a major DEI push to add more minorities and women to the ranks under previous Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.”Not long after receiving the audio, RealClearPolitics obtained video footage of the skirmish, which lasted just seconds before the two women broke up and put some distance between one another.
The Secret Service confirmed to Fox News that the two agents involved have been disciplined.
“The individuals involved were suspended from duty and this matter is the subject of an internal investigation. The Secret Service has a very strict code of conduct for all employees and any behavior that violates that code is unacceptable. Given this is a personnel matter, we are not in a position to comment further,” an agency spokesperson said.
In August, another female agent assigned to former Vice President Kamala Harris was removed from duty after throwing punches at colleagues while waiting for Harris’s departure from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. The incident, also reported first by Crabtree, came after she allegedly took the phone of another male agent and began deleting apps on it.
She displayed other erratic behavior at the time, Crabtree wrote, including “mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were ‘going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,’” sources said at the time.
The Secret Service is in the midst of a reckoning over DEI in its ranks, especially following the July 2024 shooting that nearly killed President Trump. Critics have focused on the inclusion of female agents, though a wealth of male agents have also been reprimanded for lackluster performance.
Days after taking office, the president appointed Sean Curran, the longtime head of his Secret Service detail, to salvage the agency.
