Man who hit Sacramento mayor with pie is charged

From jail, Thompson admitted to using coconut cream pie to embarrass the mayor at a public event.

The Capitol Hill outfit, citing East Bay Express, reports that a protester ran up to the mayor-a former National Basketball Association star-at a dinner event and threw a pie in his face. The police are describing Johnson has having been assaulted by the man throwing the pie.

“It was a coconut cream pie”, Thompson told the Sacramento Bee.

He was arrested on a felony charge of assaulting a public official and a misdemeanor charge of battery on school property. Johnson spoke to police after the incident, and apologized to the 200 people in attendance. Witnesses say that Thompson also punched the mayor and the mayor punched back. She said she and other supporters held a party on the street with Thompson in front of the jail with pizza, some of which they shared with homeless people nearby.

But others are taking Thompson’s side and are wondering if the mayor didn’t overreact.

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli). Sean Thompson, who allegedly struck Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in the face with a pie, talks to The Associated Press during a jail interview Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, in Sacramento, Calif.

So far, all that’s come out are few shots published last night by Sacramento Magazine, one of which shows Johnson standing with what looks like a blood stain on his shirt as Thompson is cowering and restrained on the ground nearby.

This was not first time Thompson had a run-in with law enforcement.

“I felt the pressure to do something that I thought would at least symbolize and embarrass him so I chose to throw a pie in his face in a public situation like that”, he said.

Johnson said he was not injured.

Johnson played for the Suns for 12 seasons after being acquired in a trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1987.

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“All of a sudden I looked and you could see he was kind of wiping something”, said Erika Bjork of the Sacramento Republic soccer team.

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