The San Francisco district attorney\u2019s office is criminally charging the two men involved in the alley brawl with Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s police security detail last week, the prosecutor\u2019s office announced today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the same time, the city\u2019s police accountability agency also confirmed today that it has opened an investigation into the officers involved in the fight. The police officer serving as Lurie\u2019s bodyguard may have gotten physical first, according to surveillance video that surfaced online the day after the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mission Local was the only news outlet at the scene and first reported<\/a> the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tony Shervaughn Phillips, 44, and Abraham Simon, 33, were both arrested at the scene on Thursday and are expected to be arraigned tomorrow on various charges. Phillips is charged with resisting an executive officer and causing great bodily injury, assault on a police officer, and contempt of court. The latter charge stems from an earlier case that Jenkins said prohibited Phillips from being in the very area where the alleyway melee occurred.\u00a0<\/p>\n Videos<\/a> of the incident showed Phillips and Simon standing near the edge of Cedar and Larkin streets, at the edge of the Tenderloin, on Thursday afternoon as Lurie and his bodyguard spoke with them. The mayor and his security team had been driving through the neighborhood.<\/p>\n In one video posted to TikTok, Phillips appears to try walking past the bodyguard when the officer abruptly shoves<\/a> him to the ground. Phillips starts to fight back, the video shows, and ultimately slams the officer to the ground.\u00a0The officer was later observed bleeding out of the back of his head where it hit the pavement. <\/p>\n