Update: New security footage video posted online Friday shows the police officer shoving the man on the street first, before the subsequent fight. This piece has been updated.
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s police security detail was involved in a fight at the edge of the Tenderloin on Thursday evening just before 6 p.m., according to witnesses and a video obtained by Mission Local.
The mayor was unharmed. One unidentified San Francisco police officer, who was part of Lurie’s security team and was in the black SUV used to ferry Lurie around alongside the mayor and his driver, was left bleeding from the back of his head.
He panted as he spoke to Mission Local and gave a statement to fellow police officers who responded to the scene.
The officer said that three people blocked the car shortly before the attack, and that Lurie “hopped out” to ask them to move. They began to “comply,” the officer told his fellow cops, but, at some point, one man began “talking gibberish.”
The officer then intervened and asked the man to move out of the way, he told officers. The man did, at first, but then came at him.
New surveillance footage posted online Friday, however, shows the officer shoving the man before the man lunges at the officer. The two then begin grappling before the man slams the officer into the ground. The bodyguard hit his head on the pavement when he fell.
Video obtained by Mission Local on Thursday shows the officer interlocked with the man, and Lurie calmly looking on before walking away. The man tussles with the officer and then slams him to the ground and attempts to move on top of him.
Lurie’s driver, also a police officer, was preoccupied with another man, though he did not appear injured. It is not clear if the second man attacked anyone. It is also unclear what happened with the third person the police officer on the mayoral security detail mentioned initially.
The alleged attacker was handcuffed by officers on Thursday and repeatedly shouted, “Fuck you!” as he was arrested. The second suspect tried to flee but was apprehended by police up the block on Larkin closer to Post Street.
A dozen or more police officers surrounded and stood over the two handcuffed men after the incident. Lurie looked on, appearing distressed, at the edge of Cedar Street, a trash-strewn, alley-like road between Geary and Post streets off Larkin Street.
Lurie told Mission Local that the men had tried to fight a police officer, but declined to say anything more.
The San Francisco Police Department, in a statement, said its officers responded to Cedar and Polk streets at 5:38 p.m. and arrested two men. Two officers who were part of the security detail had non-life-threatening injuries, it said.
Louis Wong, the president of the the San Francisco Police Officers Association, said he was “grateful that the officers assigned to the mayor’s security detail acted swiftly and courageously to protect him in a dangerous and unpredictable situation.”
“We wish our injured officer a full and speedy recovery and commend all involved for their bravery and decisive actions,” he added.
The security guard needs to brush up on his grappling skills and overall fitness. How embarrassing.
That security was a pretty big guy that got tossed pretty easily, if you are going to have a security force it would be a good idea if they know how to protect themselves as well.
If he had taken the first aggressive action then it would have been characterized as “Lurie’s thug attacks harmless man minding his own business.”
Check the update 🙂
San Francisco deserves a rematch. That was the beginning of a wonderful scrap that was unfortunately cut short. Let’s do everything we can to get these two back in the ring. A sanctioned fight with ufc rules but allow biting and scratching. Get it on the ballot! Someone start a non profit!!
Another ‘Wadda Scoop!’,
The Mayor’s got balls and keeps at it every day.
Puts his nose right in the grime and violence.
My dog and I pick up trash for 3 or 4 hours every day around the Armory area and it is night and day difference since he was elected.
Now, Mr. Mayor, please consider giving we 500,000 voters the power to pick the Police Chief.
We want to be right in the middle of it too !!
go Niners !!
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As a resident and taxpayer in this neighborhood, maybe finally we will get some help?
Over 30,000 requests to 311 and the police for just two blocks here and yet it is one big drug den , garbage dump.
Unsafe and unfair .
Billions spent on the tendetloin and still even the mayor with police get attacked .
Quite an embarrassment to Mahmood and Sauter that their districts are still out of control.
If people want to help come and protest about the drug sales and usage here 24/7.
Very easy to show up and protest at Tesla. How about going one block over to protest the lawlessness and people rotting on the sidewalks ?
Clean it up
Zero business left here .
This is the second time ML has reported Lurie exiting his chauffeured black car to confront street dwellers with dismal results. He thinks he’s tough because he’s riding with two goons that’ll jump out after and then he can slink away. Just stay in the car, you’re not fucking batman dude.
A little bit of Jiu Jitsu or catch wrestling would have helped that agent. He looked like an unqualified novice being taken down by that bum….
The people that hang out in those tree named alleys, they are no good and the area smells. Uggie is right, 16th even during the daytime that stolen market festers nothing good.
And don’t forget 24th and Mission.However,due to the persistent bitching of the Mission Local, readers, and finger pointing at Supervisor Felder, for some reason, that area got cleaned up and is smelling, like pine scent.
Cycling from the Mission to Sutter Pacific’s 1100 Van Ness building, west on Cedar from Polk, always sucks because I’ve just climbed up from Civic Center, and that alley is also on an incline, crimping my speed and maneuverability.
Ridiculous comment. I’ve been riding that same incline for many years through varied renditions of the area and I have never (NEVER) seen a cyclist attacked or impeded in any way. What an absurd thing to say. We see in life what we want to see but this does mean it’s a reflection of reality or how life is. Again: A ridiculous comment in a city full of human ridiculousness and real-time human contradiction,
*Comment won’t be posted and Mission Local is a DEI rag*
Denim Dan needs better thugs to protect him. Dude in the video didn’t have any street chops… just sayin. If Dan can’t hang in the Loin, he ain’t no mayor of SF…. that’s for sure. Another out-of-touch billionaire trying to relate to the 99%. It’s painful to watch.
Great the mayor wants to “interact” but then he shouldn’t be a bystander watching his SFPD officer detail get assaulted. The local news has shown very different video clips. There is lost respect for mayor Lurie but grateful no lives were lost.
SFPOA hired Sam Singer to bail their asses out after the cop got thrown by the crazy person, a tacit admission of guilt. Good job Mission Local on bird dogging that video.
Looks as if the mayor could use a more skilled security individual(s) in hand to hand combat.
Looks as if the mayor could use a more skilled security individual(s) in hand to hand combat.
Welcome to the real world,Mayor Lurie! Anyway sitting in the middle of the street is a new Crackhead, phenomenal, right before Mayor’s Lurie adventure, I observed a Crackhead, sitting in the middle of the street at, 23th and Mission. Concerned about his safety, I approach 2 officers that were dealing with a medical emergency, on the corner and they said, that they had already called someone.
The security detail must have been trained to fight at the Quality Lurie Center.
Send them to Sing Sing.Distance and cold showers will give them time to reflect on the beautiful weather in California.
If they are charged with the attempted assassination of an elected leader then I suspect they will get the max.
One hour in lock up, then back on the street.
Weak on crime, there’s the result, lucky he had bodyguards, the rest of us dont
Mr. Mayor, in the words of the late great Joe Strummer,
So you rock around and think that you’re the toughest
In the world, the whole wide world
But you’re streets away from where it gets the roughest
You ain’t been there
I’m grateful that the mayor is safe and the criminals were apprehended. hopefully everyone learned from this incident and his security can be better prepared and have better plans for incidents in the future.
Love it!
The mayor needs to be directly impacted firsthand by ongoing crime and urban decay in the Tenderloin and Inner Mission. Maybe he’ll actually do something to make lasting changes.
Pleas to his office to help turn around these areas, for which I live near 16th street BART, go unanswered.
The best way to clean out the Tenderloin is to move all the services and shelters to Stockton. Not the street, the city.
The Mayor should have assisted the cop instead of standing around watching him struggle with the criminal. I don’t understand why so many seconds went by without anybody coming to his rescue.
If you don’t understand that then you don’t understand our culture of quitters and apathetic watchers. I’m sure you’ve noticed the modern disease of all of us gazing at screens and waiting for the next victim blaming broadcast. This is what happens. Everyone looks on while some junkie puts a beatdown on the mayor’s security detail. This is all through society on various levels. No one wants to engage life anymore but is seated at the front row to the destruction and humilation of another. Imagine being that bodyguard and getting no backup whatsoever. Nice going SF. Even the major lost interest: Hands in pocket. Sure to warm the palms before he shakes another cold one.
This is why.
Glad to see the SF Mayor on the streets of SF
He should be more like his fellow SF citizens and walk those streets……….. and be just like us WITHOUT A POLICE ESCORT!
ALL SF Elected officials should travel through SF just like us; no government provided vehicles; NO free or subsidized parking; no reimbursement for commuting.
Sad to see THE MAYOR is not able to defend himself; even with police protection.
Next time bring your wife and/or family any try walking the streets of the city that elected you and faidaily to provide law enforcement.
The FEW get to prey on the MANY!
When Lurie’s careful management of appearances fails, it reveals little more than the appearance of careful management.
“Allegedly attacked.” Love it. Perfect example of one of our unhoused neighbors we’re suppose to embrace. No thank you.
There are a lot of people poking at this mayor and it’s pathetic. He’s out engaging citizens everyday as the Mayor should be doing and deeply cares about the health of San Francisco.