\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTwo men attacked a pair of police officers who were serving as bodyguards for San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, officials said. Lurie was unharmed.The suspects, who were taken into custody, were part of a group blocking Lurie and his security team’s vehicle Thursday evening in the troubled Tenderloin neighborhood. The men became violent after one of the officers asked them to move, witnesses told Mission Local, a San Francisco news organization.A video obtained by the news outlet shows one of the bodyguards dressed in a suit in a struggle with a man who throws him to the ground.It was unclear what Lurie was doing in the Tenderloin, a problem spot for public drug use and dealing, but he often walks around the city talking to residents.Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for Lurie, said there was an altercation involving Lurie’s security detail and that the mayor was not involved.San Francisco police officers responded to the scene after receiving a request for backup from Lurie\u2019s bodyguards, who said they were in a physical altercation with two unidentified men, the police department said in a statement.The officers had non-life-threatening injuries and were treated by paramedics at the scene, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.The men were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a peace officer with a deadly weapon, resisting a peace officer, possession of drug paraphernalia and other charges.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Two men attacked a pair of police officers who were serving as bodyguards for San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, officials said. Lurie was unharmed.<\/p>\n
The suspects, who were taken into custody, were part of a group blocking Lurie and his security team’s vehicle Thursday evening in the troubled Tenderloin neighborhood. The men became violent after one of the officers asked them to move, witnesses told Mission Local, a San Francisco news organization.<\/p>\n
A video obtained by the news outlet shows one of the bodyguards dressed in a suit in a struggle with a man who throws him to the ground.<\/p>\n
It was unclear what Lurie was doing in the Tenderloin, a problem spot for public drug use and dealing, but he often walks around the city talking to residents.<\/p>\n
Charles Lutvak, a spokesperson for Lurie, said there was an altercation involving Lurie’s security detail and that the mayor was not involved.<\/p>\n
San Francisco police officers responded to the scene after receiving a request for backup from Lurie\u2019s bodyguards, who said they were in a physical altercation with two unidentified men, the police department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The officers had non-life-threatening injuries and were treated by paramedics at the scene, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The men were arrested on suspicion of assaulting a peace officer with a deadly weapon, resisting a peace officer, possession of drug paraphernalia and other charges.<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men attacked a pair of police officers who were serving as bodyguards for San Francisco Mayor Daniel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[29182,2820,95939,95496,636,23615,42425,1555,10770,2325,25094,95941,101,103,6499,102,95940,2489,104,106,105,3025],"class_list":{"0":"post-208096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-altercation","9":"tag-app","10":"tag-bodyguard","11":"tag-bodyguards","12":"tag-daniel-lurie","13":"tag-download","14":"tag-drug-paraphernalia","15":"tag-man","16":"tag-peace-officer","17":"tag-police-officer","18":"tag-possession","19":"tag-public-drug-use","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","22":"tag-san-francisco-mayor","23":"tag-san-francisco-news","24":"tag-san-francisco-police-officer","25":"tag-scene","26":"tag-sf","27":"tag-sf-headlines","28":"tag-sf-news","29":"tag-statement"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}