Moonbeam Thug?

17_1978_050102.jpgSo while SF's mayor dates celebrities, and San Ramon's mayor breaks up fights, Oakland mayor Jerry Brown's on a different level. He's already dated a celebrity! What's left to do? Well, start a fight of his own, allegedly. The Alameda County DA's office is investigating charges made by an African-American Oakland clubgoer that Jerry Brown made racist comments towards her and broke her cameraphone.

According to the woman, a fight broke out outside Club @17, on Telegraph and 17th, and her friend was hit in the face with a stiletto heel. As she was tending to her friend, she alleges that Jerry Brown said, "That's what you get for being here," and that he was making references to "you people." She said she then started recording him on her cell phone, at which point Brown reached over and squeezed her phone until the plastic casing broke.

Brown agrees that he was on the scene, but says he only went in to try and mediate the fight, and he vehemently denies having broken anyone's cell phone in the process. The woman also concedes that her phone still works. Cops on the scene watched the phone video she taped, but said they couldn't hear anything and all they could see was a big hand on the screen. Out of all the details of this story, for some reason we think the big hand is the funniest.

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Sounded like a junior high cat fight to me... Never get in the middle of a cat fight . . . just stand back and watch 'em rip each other's cloths off... Seeing that this Ayesha Wilson says she is planning a civil suit ... maybe she should stay out of the big city and boogie her booty back to Manteca and get a real job ...

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Out of all the details of this story, for some reason we think the big hand is the funniest.

Yeah - it's like, "Talk to the hand, cuz the mayor don't understand."

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and that was the same club where the City of Oakland's marketing division held their "Meet Downtown Oakland" campaign kickoff rally. because the place is supposed to be "classy." I never saw Jerry try to mediate cat fights at Cabel's Reef which is a few blocks from his luxury loft. But maybe Jerry doesn't roll like that.

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