US EditionTwo Suspects Arrested After Altercation Involving San Francisco Mayor’s Security Detail
Two men were arrested after blocking Mayor Daniel Lurie's vehicle and injuring two security officers with non-life-threatening wounds, police said.
- On March 5, in the Tenderloin, Lurie’s SUV was blocked near Cedar and Larkin, prompting a confrontation involving security officers, video shows.
- When Lurie's SUV was halted, a group of three people blocked the vehicle and the mayor asked them to move, but one refused and began `talking gibberish`, prompting an SFPD bodyguard to intervene.
- In the recording, officers detained suspects Tony Shervaughn Phillips, 44, and Abraham Simon, 33, after video shows a bodyguard pulled to the ground and bleeding.
- Charles Lutvak, mayoral spokesperson, said `There was an altercation this evening involving the mayor's security detail. The mayor was not involved`; the San Francisco Police Officers Association praised officers' swift response.
- Authorities say Tony Shervaughn Phillips, 44, was previously arrested in connection with a 2019 killing but not charged, and suspects face multiple assault and resisting arrest charges.
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