A judge this week released the homeless man who had violently assaulted a bodyguard who was protecting the San Francisco mayor.
As previously reported, San Francisco’s Democrat Mayor Daniel Lurie calmly walked away as his security team was violently attacked on the street in the Tenderloin District last Thursday evening.
One San Francisco officer assigned to Lurie’s security detail was bleeding from his head after he was bodyslammed.
Lurie was not injured.
According to Mission Local, Lurie “hopped out” of his SUV to confront the three people who were standing in the street and blocking his vehicle.
The officer instructed the men to move out of the street when one of them approached him.
The officer tried to fend off the attacker and grabbed his arm. The suspect, identified as Tony Phillips, slammed the officer to the ground.
Two suspects were arrested.
On Wednesday, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Sylvia Husing ordered Phillips, who has a long rap sheet, released from jail because she said the bodyguard had instigated the fight.
The judge watched the viral video of the fight and said she was concerned about the homeless man’s safety.
“I don’t want to let him out and let him be subject to the same sort of stuff that he was in that video,” Judge Husing said, according to Mission Local. “He was violently assaulted.”
Phillips was previously ordered to stay away from that area in the Tenderloin district but the judge wasn’t concerned that he violated the court order.
Husing said the court order was too “vague.”
Mission Local reported:
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Sylvia Husing today ordered the release from jail of Tony Shervaughn Phillips, the man charged with assaulting and resisting officers after a Tenderloin street fight with Mayor Daniel Lurie’s police bodyguard last week.
Phillips, Husing said, was “violently assaulted” by that officer.
After Phillips appeared in court this morning and pleaded not guilty on various charges, Husing watched surveillance video footage of the incident in private. Returning to court, she seemed to have a clear view of what happened: The police officer “did violently shove him to the ground,” Husing said.
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