Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson was hit in the face with a pie Wednesday night at a farm-to-fork benefit dinner at Sacramento Charter High School, then got into a brief altercation that sent the pie-thrower to the hospital and jail.
Johnson was talking to dinner guests when a man approached him from the side, grabbed him by the arm, yanked him off balance and slammed a pie into his face, according to Johnson spokeswoman Crystal Strait.
Sean Thompson, 32, was transported to a local hospital before he was arrested on a felony charge of assaulting a public official and misdemeanor charge of battery on school property, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department’s website.