- Kamala Harris’ Secret Service bodyguard got into a fight with colleagues on Monday
- Michelle Herczeg, 43, displayed distressing and erratic behavior at work.
- She filed a $1 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the Dallas Police Department in 2016.
Kamala Harris’ ‘erratic’ bodyguard who feuded with colleagues this week previously filed a $1 million gender discrimination lawsuit against the city of Dallas.
An armed Secret Service officer assigned to the vice president was reportedly removed from duty after she got into a physical fight with other agents on Monday.
The agent began fighting with his fellow officers Monday morning after reporting to work at Joint Base Andrew in Maryland before the vice president arrived for a planned trip to Wisconsin, according to the Washington Examiner.
RealClearPolitics identified the agent as Michelle Herczeg, 43, who is an agent on Harris’ security team.
It has now been revealed that Heczeg had previously filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against the city of Dallas in 2016.
Michelle Herczeg (pictured) worked for the Dallas Police Department before joining the Secret Service.
Herczeg, an armed Secret Service officer assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris, was removed from duty after she got into a physical fight with other agents on Monday.
The lawsuit alleges that Herczeg suffered retaliation after she reported sexual harassment to colleagues at the Dallas Police Department.
Herczeg also claimed that she was not allowed to return to a crime reduction after reporting that a superior officer assaulted her in May 2015, Dallas Morning News reported.
Legal documents of 2021 show that Herczeg sued the city of Dallas for gender discrimination, wrongful termination based on gender, retaliation based on gender, and aiding and abetting discrimination.
The initial lawsuit claimed that the department “tolerates unprofessional behavior such as fraternization and unprofessional working relationships between men and women based on an atmosphere in which the male officer is in charge, regardless of rank or ability.”
Herczeg was hired by the Dallas Police Department in September 2008 and became a senior corporal in 2015. Before joining law enforcement, she served in the Air Force for eight years.
She graduated from the police academy in the top five percent of her class and sought further law enforcement training to become a drug recognition expert.
Herczeg claims he was not allowed to return to the North Central Crime Reduction Team after he reported the alleged assault.
Harris was at his home at the Naval Observatory when the incident occurred, according to the Secret Service, and his travel plans were not affected.
The lawsuit claims she was denied overtime patrol shifts, causing her and her family to suffer “stress and mental anguish over the loss of compensation payments.”
On Monday, Herczeg arrived at the service acting erratically, grabbing a fellow agent’s personal phone and began deleting apps from it. She also mumbled to herself, hid behind curtains and threw objects at her fellow officers, including menstrual pads, according to the report.
Herczeg told his fellow agents that they “would burn in hell and needed to listen to God.”
Sources said the special agent in charge and a shift supervisor tried to calm Herczeg after she began displaying aggressive behavior, but she accosted the senior agent in charge of security detail and began punching him.
Although Herczeg was armed, her weapon remained in its holster until her colleagues disarmed it. They handcuffed her and took her out of the terminal.
The Secret Service confirmed that an agent in the vice president’s detail began “exhibiting behavior that his colleagues found distressing” and was removed from duty on Monday.
Harris was at his home at the Naval Observatory when the incident occurred, according to the Secret Service, and his travel plans were not affected.
‘The United States Secret Service takes the safety and health of our employees very seriously. “As this is a medical matter, we will not reveal any further details,” Secret Service communications chief Anthony Guglielmi said in a statement.
Other officers were aware of previous incidents of strange behavior by Michelle Herczeg before the incident at the airport.