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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sacramento Mayor and former NBA guard Kevin Johnson was assaulted at a charity dinner event on Wednesday when a man approached him and hit him in the face with a pie.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johnson was speaking at the Seeds of HOPE dinner at Sacramento Charter High School when a man, identified as 32-year-old Sean Thompson, approached Johnson, pulled a pie from a bag and put it in Johnson's face.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick Miller of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;East Bay Express&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;reported that Johnson \u201Ctackled\u201D the protester and punched him in the face as many as 10 times. Miller quotes multiple witnesses as saying the protester was left bloodied.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sacramento police&amp;nbsp;released Thompson\u2019s&amp;nbsp;mugshot, which shows dried blood on his nose and ear, a black eye and stitches under one eye.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The mayor's chief of staff, Crystal Strait, confirmed that Johnson defended himself by striking and tackling Thompson. Thompson was booked on a felony charge of suspicion of assaulting a public official.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"He was defending himself,\" Strait said. \"The man came up to him and grabbed his arm and basically punched him with a pie. The mayor was defending himself and his family. He felt threatened.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johnson was elected mayor of Sacramento in 2008 and has served two terms. He announced he would not seek a third term after&amp;nbsp;Deadspin\u2019s&amp;nbsp;Dave McKenna reported extensively on allegations of sexual abuse against Johnson. One alleged victim was 15 years old.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johnson continued to speak after he cleaned himself up.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johnson spent 13 seasons in the NBA, spending a majority of his career with the Phoenix Suns. He was named a three-time All-Star and averaged 17.9 points and 9.1 assists during his career.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Johnson is only one of four players in NBA history to have averaged at 20 points and 10 assists per game in three different seasons.\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;em&gt;Scooby Axson&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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