San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie blamed the wild brawl that injured his bodyguard: police

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie sparked a wild brawl between bystanders blocking the road and his security guard, according to a police report has revealed.

The incident began when Lurie saw people sitting on the sidewalk near the city’s drug-plagued Tenderloin neighborhood and ordered his driver to stop.

The mayor jumped out of the car and his security guard, Joel Aguayo, followed him. Lurie walked up to the men sitting on the sidewalk and asked them to leave, but at least one of the men refused, according to the police report. obtained by the San Francisco Standard.

“In whose name should I move,” said Tony Phillips, who was once a suspect in a murder case, according to Aguayo.

Witness statements in the report said the mayor “addressed the group and asked them to move on as they were standing in the roadway. Phillips immediately became argumentative and stated that he did not need to move.”

The mayor informed Phillips that Aguayo was a San Francisco police officer, but this did not faze him as the man continued to refuse demands for him to move.

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 approached Aguayo, the report said, and told him he was going to “kick Bruce Lee’s ass.”

Aguayo then pushed Phillips to the ground, leading to the physical altercation that was caught on camera. As the pair struggled, Lurie is seen walking quickly and then running.

The mayor apparently ran to tell his driver, Officer Nicolas Boccio, that his partner was in trouble.

Boccio then rushed to help Aguayo, but not before another man, Abraham Simon, confronted him and grabbed his waistband, the report said. Boccio drew his service weapon and Simon stopped his attack.

The pair were unable to restrain Phillips, but arriving officers helped take him into custody. Phillips is charged with threatening an officer, causing great bodily harm and contempt of court for violating a stay-away order in the alley. The pair, including Simon, who is accused of interfering with an officer, will be arraigned on Tuesday.

Aguayo suffered cuts on the back of his forehead, bruises on his face and a back injury. He said he tried to de-escalate but was unable to do so. The city’s Department of Police Accountability is investigating the incident, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Lurie appeared to respond to the incident Instagram video.

“I walk the streets of San Francisco every day because I believe you can’t solve what you can’t see,” he said.

“I will continue to talk to our families, small business owners and residents and stay focused on public safety and transforming our approach to homelessness and the behavioral health crisis.”

He has been criticized for the recent altercation, including by some who commented on his recent post. “We’re still walking around with his guard and starting fights with the homeless again, aren’t we?” said one commenter.

“Is your security going to start more fights that they can’t finish while you walk away?” another added.

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