Homeless man charged with attacking San Francisco mayor’s security detail arrested again days after release

A stateless antheral accused of violently attacking a San Francisco constabulary serviceman assigned to Mayor Daniel Lurie’s information item is backmost down bars — conscionable days aft a justice ordered his merchandise and suggested he, not the officer, had been "violently assaulted."

Tony Phillips, 44, was arrested again Monday greeting for allegedly violating a court-ordered stay-away provision, according to police. Officers conducting stateless outreach spotted Phillips and took him into custody without incident.

The 2nd apprehension comes little than a week aft San Francisco Superior Court Judge Sylvia Husing ordered Phillips released from jailhouse connected March 11 pursuing the high-profile altercation earlier this month.

According to tribunal documents cited by prosecutors, the March 5 confrontation began erstwhile Lurie and his information item encountered a radical of radical blocking a thoroughfare successful San Francisco’s Tenderloin district.

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A booking photograph of Tony Phillips from a 2019 San Francisco apprehension successful transportation with a fatal stabbing connected Fern Alley adjacent Van Ness Avenue. The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office aboriginal declined to prosecute charges, citing insufficient evidence. (San Francisco Police Department)

Authorities accidental Phillips became argumentative and moved toward the mayor, prompting an serviceman to measurement successful betwixt them. Prosecutors allege Phillips past got wrong inches of the serviceman and shouted, "Bruce Lee I’ll footwear your a--," earlier the serviceman pushed him backmost to make space.

Phillips past allegedly rushed the officer, wrapped his arms astir him and lifted him disconnected the crushed earlier slamming him onto the pavement, leaving the serviceman with a concussion and a caput laceration.

Prosecutors person charged Phillips with felony resisting an enforcement serviceman and battle connected a bid officer, on with an allegation that helium caused superior bodily injury. They person besides argued helium should beryllium held without bail, citing what they picture arsenic a nationalist information risk.

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A 2nd suspect, 33-year-old Abraham Simon, is besides facing charges related to resisting oregon obstructing an officer, according to prosecutors.

Despite those allegations, Husing said successful tribunal that Phillips was the 1 who had been "violently assaulted" and ordered his release, according to the New York Post. At the petition of prosecutors, however, the justice imposed a stay-away bid barring Phillips from returning to the area.

Phillips’ attorney, Ivan Rodriguez, has sharply disputed the prosecution’s mentation of events, telling KTVU that his lawsuit was not the aggressor and that video grounds shows the serviceman initiated carnal contact.

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"The justice said it herself: Mr. Phillips was attacked," Rodriguez said, calling the ruling "the archetypal measurement to justice" and urging prosecutors to reconsider pursuing the case, according to KTVU.

Rodriguez besides suggested the brushwood stemmed from what helium described arsenic a politically motivated interaction, alleging the politician "lured" the concern by stopping and engaging with radical connected the street, KTVU reported.

Lurie, for his part, has said helium stopped retired of concern.

"I went to spot what was going connected and inquire if they needed help, but besides asked them to get disconnected [the street] due to the fact that I was disquieted astir their safety, and I was disquieted astir the information of the radical astir them," the politician told KTVU. 

Prosecutors person pushed back, arguing Phillips should beryllium detained due to the fact that helium has repeatedly failed to look successful tribunal unless brought successful by instrumentality enforcement.

Phillips’ 2nd apprehension comes arsenic Lurie has continued to stress his hands-on attack to the city’s thoroughfare conditions, adjacent successful the aftermath of the incidental involving his information detail.

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The Tenderloin vicinity successful San Francisco and Mayor Daniel Lurie, who called the metropolis "broken" hours earlier a convulsive altercation injured a subordinate of his information detail. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images/Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

In a caller video posted online, the politician said helium is "walking the streets of San Francisco each day" due to the fact that "you can’t lick what you can’t see," adding that helium remains "laser focused connected nationalist safety" and addressing homelessness and the city’s behavioral wellness crisis.

Separately, Lurie announced past week that San Francisco secured astir $100 cardinal successful authorities backing to grow intelligence wellness and addiction attraction services. The backing volition enactment further locked psychiatric beds, caller attraction capableness and a planned sobering halfway — efforts the politician said are aimed astatine getting radical "off the streets, into treatment, and into recovery."

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Phillips faces further pending cases, including allegations related to squatting, loitering and possession of cause paraphernalia.

He is scheduled to look successful tribunal aboriginal this week connected misdemeanor charges, with a abstracted tribunal day tied to the altercation acceptable for April.

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Police vehicles enactment a Tenderloin thoroughfare adjacent Cedar and Polk aft a convulsive altercation involving Mayor Daniel Lurie’s information detail. Two suspects were arrested and officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries. (KTVU)

Phillips has besides antecedently been arrested successful transportation with a fatal stabbing successful San Francisco. In 2019, helium was taken into custody connected suspicion of homicide, but prosecutors declined to record charges, citing insufficient evidence, according to the San Francisco Examiner.

The San Francisco Police Officers Association declined to remark straight connected the lawsuit oregon the judge’s remarks, citing the ongoing ineligible proceedings.

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However, the national said its members stay focused connected safety.

"The SFPOA members are pleased and arrogant to support Mayor Lurie, each elected officials, and the residents of our city," said national president Louis Wong.

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"The SFPOA is ever acrophobic astir the information of our officers and the interaction of incidents similar this one. When an serviceman is injured successful the enactment of duty, it underscores the precise existent risks our members look each time to support this metropolis — arsenic good arsenic our mayor," Wong added. "Our absorption is ever ensuring that officers are supported, protected, and capable to bash their jobs safely."

Fox News Digital has reached retired to the mayor’s office, the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and Phillips’ lawyer for comment.

Stepheny Price covers crime, including missing persons, homicides and migrant crime. Send communicative tips to [email protected].