Jay Z has better security than Prez. Obama – Hakim Jeffries

• Posted on October 3, 2014October 3, 2014
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, managed to give a shout-out to a borough icon as he commented Tuesday on the resignation of Secret Service Director Julia Pierson.

He said Pierson’s exit must be followed by reforms at the protective agency because “we cannot have a situation where Jay-Z appears to have a more competent security apparatus than the President of the United States.”

It’s worth noting that Pierson’s resignation, which followed a series of embarrassing lapses by the agency, was hastened by her failure to inform lawmakers of a Sep. 16 incident in which an armed security contractor with a criminal history boarded an elevator with President Obama at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Jay-Z’s security may be good, but it also broke down in an elevator when he was attacked by his sister-in-law Solange Knowles in a Manhattan hotel on May 5. Unlike that incident, no video has emerged of Obama’s elevator problem.

In his statement, Jeffries called for better Secret Service leadership, “significant retraining, a firm disciplinary code, technology enhancements and a greater budget allocation.”

-nydailynews