New video footage of aviolent street fightinvolving San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security detail in the city’s troubled Tenderloin district shows his guard shoving a man to the ground as the mayor looked on.
Lurie caught heat when an initial clip showed himlooking on calmly before walking awaywith his hands in his pockets as the guard, a police officer, wrestled with the suspect, who was later arrested.
A new, longer video shows Lurie standing motionless as guard pushes the man to the ground after he got in the officer’s face and appeared to try to move past him.After the man got to his feet and the two begin to tussle, Lurie is seen walking away before appearing to break into a sprint as he disappears behind a building.
Sources familiar with the incident said the mayor was walking away to fetch another member of the detail for backup.
Just when you thought the video of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie couldn’t get any worse.Lurie appears to have no issue hanging around as his security detail violently shoves a homeless dude to the ground, but runs off as the homeless dude fights back.pic.twitter.com/XsAOnia2Eahttps://t.co/DRAJNs78PH
The initial video showed the officer struggling with the suspect, later identified as Tony Phillips, on the ground until help arrived. The officer was left bleeding from the back of his head after the fight.
Cops arrested Phillips, who was detained on suspicion of murder in 2019 before being released, and another man involved in the fracas, Abraham Simon.
Viewers of the new clip said it shed new light on the chaotic confrontation.
“It takes on a new vibe from this angle. Looks like he watching his body guard pick a fight with a homeless man until it went the other way. Is this a pattern of behavior? A form of entertainment?” one X userwrote.
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