The mayor of San Jose, California, was in the middle of doing a television interview on the streets of his city when a man walking by suddenly assaulted the mayor’s bodyguard.
Mayor Matt Mahan, a Democrat, was speaking into KRON4’s news camera in downtown San Jose when a black male carrying a backpack walked by and shouted something, including a bleeped obscenity, video of the incident showed.
“I would not let him go in there if we can,” Mahan immediately said with a nervous laugh, pointing to the nearby restaurant. Mahan was in the area for a restaurant opening.
A fight breaks out in the middle of a TV interview with San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan between the Mayor’s security detail and a pedestrian walking by.
The incident happened last Tuesday when a pedestrian walked by Mahan and attempted to enter a building as he was talking loudly on… pic.twitter.com/X1zCi736J9
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