FILE: San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks during a briefing with public safety leaders and city department heads on June 9, 2025. Prosecutors say Lurie was not injured in an altercation last week involving his security detail. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

Two men have been charged in connection with an altercation with San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security detail in the city’s Tenderloin neighborhood last week, prosecutors announced Tuesday.

Tony Shervaughn Phillips and Abraham Simon were charged following the scuffle that started around 5:30 p.m. Thursday as two San Francisco police officers providing security for the mayor were driving north on Larkin Street and stopped at Cedar Street because of a group of people blocking the roadway, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.