San FranciscoMayor Daniel Lurie sparked a wild brawlbetween bystanders blocking the road and his security detail, a police reporthas revealed.
The incident started whenLurie saw people sitting on the sidewalknear the drug-plagued Tenderloin neighborhood of the city and ordered his driver to pull over.
The mayor hopped out of the car and his security officer, Joel Aguayo, followed him. Lurie went over to the men sitting on the sidewalk and asked them to move, but at least one of the men refused, according to the police reportobtained by the San Francisco Standard.
“On whose behalf do I need to move,” Tony Phillips, who was once suspected in a murder case, said according to Aguayo.
Witness statements in the report said the mayor “addressed the group and requested that they move along, as they were standing in the roadway. Phillips became immediately argumentative, stating that he did not have to move.”
The mayor informed Phillips that Aguayo was a San Francisco police officer, but this did nothing to sway him as the man continued to refused demands for him to move.
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Lurie and Aguayo asked the man to move at least four times, according to the Standard. The pair threatened to call uniformed officers to move him, but Phillips did not comply.
The situation escalated when Phillips stepped toward Aguayo, the report said, and told him he would “Bruce Lee kick your a**.”
Aguayo then pushed Phillips to the ground, sparking the physical altercation caught on camera. As the pair grappled with each other, Lurie is seen fast walking and then running.
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