Danny Trejo brawls at a Fourth of July parade in Sunland-Tujunga. Why? A drinking water balloon

“Machete” star and Trejo’s Tacos entrepreneur Danny Trejo engaged in a brawl in the course of a Fourth of July celebration in Sunland-Tujunga.

The battle broke out Thursday in the course of a parade hosted by a neighborhood Rotary Club, exactly where the 80-yr-aged action star was a visitor. Trejo was driving a white, convertible minimal-rider in the parade but stopped his vehicle following anyone threw a drinking water balloon at his automobile, in accordance to movie shared on social media.

The “From Dusk Until Dawn” actor stepped out of his vehicle and confronted a team of attendees on the sidewalk. After a person else threw a further water balloon at the Latino icon‘s head, he exchanged punches with a individual donning black shorts, a sleeveless shirt and a hat. Trejo fell on his again off the sidewalk. The person also can be viewed hitting Trejo’s good friend Mario Castillo, who was still left bloodied immediately after the incident, according to movie released by KTTV Fox 11.

Movie showed Trejo receiving back again to his toes, grabbing a folding chair and throwing it into the brawling crowd. TMZ released video clip from another perspective, showing another particular person holding back Trejo from the crowd.

“[Trejo] pushed females out of the way to get to all those men,” Sunland-Tujunga resident James Spishak explained to The Occasions. “There have been young children there. It could’ve gotten truly unpleasant. It would’ve never took place if he stayed in the car or truck.”

Spishak stated Trejo slapped him when he ran more than to the group and experimented with to break up the battle. “I love Danny Trejo, I believe he’s a great dude, but he wants to know when to say ‘no,’” Spishak claimed.

Reps for Trejo did not promptly respond to The Times’ request for comment. The Sunland/Tujunga/Shadow Hills Rotary Club, which hosted the Fourth of July celebration, also did not quickly reply.

“Everybody was holding him back,” said Sunland-Tujunga resident Arnie Abramyan, who shared areas of the brawl on Instagram. “There ended up a large amount of men and women amongst him and the persons who threw the h2o balloon. He was just upset. He was yelling, screaming, mad and was attempting to get to the guy who threw the h2o balloon.”

Abramyan, president of the Sunland-Tujunga Chamber of Commerce, advised The Situations that Trejo was participating in the neighborhood’s yearly Fourth of July parade for the first time. Abramyan, whose organization Arnieville is just one of the sponsors of the function, said there was a specified place on the parade route where by people could use Tremendous Soakers and water balloons, but Trejo was not at that component of the route when he was hit with a drinking water balloon.

Los Angeles law enforcement were being responding to a different incident close by and came to the website of the brawl after it transpired, Abramyan said. He additional that officers instructed him Trejo did not want to push any expenses. Abramyan claimed he and the rest of the Chamber of Commerce experienced an emergency meeting just after the parade to determine out how to apologize to Trejo.

“I doubt he’ll take part [in the parade] once again, but we absolutely want to make amends and demonstrate him appreciate and regard,” Abramyan claimed.