san francisco — Two men attacked two police officers who were working as bodyguards for San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, officials said. Lowry was not injured.
The suspects, who were taken into custody, were part of a group that intercepted Lowry’s car and his security team Thursday evening in the troubled Tenderloin neighborhood. Witnesses told Mission Local, a news organization in San Francisco, that the men became violent after an officer asked them to move.
A video obtained by the news agency shows a bodyguard wearing a suit wrestling with a man who throws him to the ground.
It was not clear what Lowry was doing in the Tenderloin District, an area with drug abuse and drug dealing problems, but he often walked around town talking to residents.
Charles Lutvak, a spokesman for Lowry, said there was an altercation between Lowry security personnel and that the mayor was not involved.
San Francisco Police Department officers went to the scene after receiving a request for backup from Lowry’s bodyguards, who said they were in a physical altercation with two unidentified men, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.
The officers suffered 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.