Danny Trejo Says He Was Provoked During Water Balloon 4 of July Fight
Danny Trejo says he was provoked into a brawling during the Fourth of July incident ... and insists race played a significant role in why he and his friend were targeted.
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00:00How are you feeling? I mean, look, man, you know, I was so sad. I'm so sad that I behaved
00:10the way I behaved. I'm so sad that grown men got to throw water balloons to enjoy a day,
00:16you know, and I don't think I would even got out of the car if somebody had yelled, it's
00:22acid. Oh, wow. I got panic. I immediately got out, look at the hood and then boom, somebody
00:30hit me. Then when I turned, you got to understand, there was like eight, nine, 10 people around
00:35this car when they threw that balloon. So somebody wasn't worried that they were going
00:41to hit anybody else. And when I got out of the car, boom, then a balloon hit me. And
00:45then I looked up and I see a guy holding on. I don't know what the hell is wrong with you.
00:51So when he grabbed me, you know. So in the video, I want to say in the video was from
00:56behind. So he grabbed you. Yeah. And then you reacted. I got you. I got you. So if someone
01:03grabs, if someone grabs you, that's that's like I step back and I fell off the curb.
01:08I'm sad. I'm just sad that there are still people like from the 50s and 60s that still
01:17feel the same way because no one else was targeted. You know, so you feel like it was
01:21because, you know, you see some Mexicans in a nice car.
01:24It was targeted. You know, there was nobody else getting hit with balloons in front of
01:28us or behind us. You know, they were just at our lowriders. Come on. You got a classic
01:33lowrider in a parade. That's the last thing you want is to get water on it. That's right.
01:37Anything on it.
01:38We didn't do it with water first. That's where I panicked.
01:41And I mean, I wouldn't, anybody would have gone and said, hey, what's going on? What's
01:45this about? But when, so we, we didn't see that in the front because we saw from behind
01:50and I want you to say your part. You think he grabs you and you had to do your thing.
01:55Protect yourself.
01:56They also didn't show when they stomping on my arms, you know, when they were holding
02:01me down, I got fingerprints where they're all holding me down, stomping on me.
02:04Let me see those eyes. Like you just had your 80th happy birthday. How does your body feel
02:09now?
02:10Hey, I'm all right. They couldn't hurt me. Like, you know, it was sad. It was sad, man.
02:17I would be embarrassed. I would be embarrassed if I attacked an 80 year old man and he's
02:24still talking and laughing.