San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is taking heat for his apathetic-seeming response to anassault on a member of his security detail— as the attacker behind the brutal body slam is revealed to have never faced charges over an arrest on suspicion of murder.
San Francisco police apprehended two suspects, Tony Phillips and Abraham Simon, after the bloody skirmish Thursday near the troubled Tenderloin neighborhood.
In a video obtainedby Mission Local, Lurie is shown, hands in pockets, briefly observing the scuffle between his security guard and Phillips before he simply “peaced out” of the chaotic scene, oneX user observed.
A person can be heard at the end of the video saying, “Where did the mayor go?”
Video obtained by Mission Local shows a police officer, part of Mayor Lurie's security detail, tussling with a man in the Tenderloin.The mayor looks on before walking away.The man then slams the officer to the ground, & tries to get on top of him.https://t.co/4x32vFGn2gpic.twitter.com/y2bIMixZlc
“Watch how the Mayor just sort of walks off while his own security detail member gets mogged by a criddler. What a complete coward,” wrote an X usercalled Greg Koenig.
“The mayor doesn’t even try and help his employee which is such an insight to his operating system,” another criticweighed in.
Mark Fabela, another X user, posted a video of a 2024 scuffle involving San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s security detail, in which the mayor looked on as hisguard was pummeled.
“Two mayors. Two fights. Same leadership style: stand there and watch.”
A source familiar with the Thursday incident said the mayor was walking away to fetch another member of the detail for backup.
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