To Danny Trejo, the individuals who hurled h2o balloons at him in the course of a Fourth of July celebration in Sunland-Tujunga are “bullies” and “cowards” who racially qualified the Latino monitor legend and his good friends.
“I’m sad. I’m just unfortunate that there’s however people like from the ‘50s and ‘60s that nonetheless feel the exact same way,” he explained about the incident to TMZ, “because no 1 else was specific.”
The “Machete” star and Trejos Tacos restaurateur, 80, opened up about his working experience in the drinking water balloon incident and the subsequent brawl that went viral during the holiday break. A struggle broke out Thursday for the duration of a parade hosted by a neighborhood Rotary Club, where Trejo was a guest.
Trejo and his buddy, Mario Castillo, ended up amongst the individuals driving down the parade route in a white convertible lower-rider on Foothill Boulevard. The motor vehicle came to a prevent immediately after somebody threw a water balloon at the car, according to the movie shared on social media, and the “From Dusk Till Dawn” actor stepped out to confront a team of attendees on the sidewalk.
He would not have remaining his vehicle if an individual hadn’t yelled that the balloon was stuffed with acid, he told TMZ in a video clip job interview. “That’s when I bought panicked,” he described, before adding he was worried for the bystanders surrounding his car.
Arnie Abramyan, president of the Sunland-Tujunga Chamber of Commerce, explained to The Situations very last 7 days that there was a designated space on the parade route wherever individuals could use Super Soakers and water balloons, but Trejo hadn’t arrived at that element of the route when he was hit with a drinking water balloon.
Trejo stated he confronted the human being who he suspected threw the balloon and replied “C’mon” when the TMZ reporter requested no matter whether he felt the drinking water balloon attack was racially specific.
Castillo, who sustained accidents to his eye and arms from the brawl, claimed “it was targeted.”
“There was nobody else having hit with balloons in entrance of us or at the rear of us. They have been just at our lower-riders,” Castillo additional, as Trejo nodded his head seemingly in settlement.
Trejo also shared his side of the tale to Fox 11, telling the outlet “I dislike bullies, and that is what bullies do.” He did not disclose any specifics about the suspect’s identification, but Castillo told the channel the human being who allegedly threw the balloons was a “grown man, skinhead, [who had] tattoos.”
The “Spy Kids” and “Machete Kills” actor informed various outlets that he was “sad” about the incident. He seemingly took accountability for his section in the violence this earlier Thursday, telling TMZ, “I’m so sad that I behaved the way that I behaved.”
He extra: “I’m so unhappy that developed guys gotta throw drinking water balloons to love a day.”
The Sunland/Tujunga/Shadow Hills Rotary Club, which hosted the Fourth of July celebration, lamented the “disheartening” altercation in a assertion shared on Facebook about the weekend. The club criticized the “unfortunate steps by a incredibly small team of men and women…that brought about hurt to both parade spectators and contributors.” The missive also available an apology to Trejo and his team “that their present of good will was marred by the disrespectful steps of some of these alongside the parade route.”
The Fourth of July celebration commenced at 10 a.m. At 11:10, Foothill officers responded to a radio call of an assault suspect at the intersection of McVine Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Law enforcement Section instructed The Moments. Law enforcement verified there was a actual physical altercation and described no accidents and no arrests.
Trejo has seemingly moved on from the altercation unscathed, smiling and laughing in his online video interviews and celebrating Countrywide Video clip Recreation Working day on Monday by way of Instagram ( he says Nintendo’s “Animal Crossing: New Horizon” is his favored sport).
“I would be ashamed if I attacked an 80-year-outdated male and he’s continue to conversing and laughing,” Trejo reported to TMZ.
Times staff members writer Summer Lin contributed to this report.
