Man who hit mayor with pie calls charges ‘trumped up’
Sean Thompson, the activist facing assault charges after shoving a pie into the face of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, criticized the charges against him Thursday.
“These are trumped-up charges. This was a pie to the face of a mayor. It didn’t create a lasting injury,” Thompson said after a scheduled preliminary hearing in Sacramento Superior Court was delayed to Nov. 3. “I received repeated blows to the face and the back of the head. (Johnson) physically hit me. However the court process ends up, I believe I’m not guilty.”
Thompson faces a felony allegation of assault on a public official as well as a misdemeanor count of assault on school grounds in the Sept. 21 incident at Sacramento Charter High School in Oak Park.
Thompson, 32, says the incident doesn’t rise to the level of an assault.
Thompson, clad in a T-shirt and jeans, briefly chatted with a couple of supporters on the second-floor mezzanine of the Gordon Schaber Courthouse in downtown Sacramento, joking at one point that a new scratch on his forehead was the result of a swipe from his girlfriend’s cat.
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