Eh its California no one would expect anything else
A meeting of local government officials from across California dissolved into violence Saturday involving at least seven people, according to the Los Angeles Times.
While law enforcement could not immediately determine who started the fight, Commerce, Calif., Mayor John Soria said in a written statement backed up by several witnesses that the fight involved members of the Commerce City Council as well as other public officials.
Participants in the fight reportedly also included political consultants, government vendors and Los Angeles–area elected officials, some of whom were attempting to break up the brawl.
Soria said in his statement that he had been told Councilmen Leonard Mendoza and Ivan Altamirano saw their conversation “become elevated,” leading him to try “to defuse any potential conflict,” at which point he saw Mendoza “apparently unconscious” on the floor and Altamirano standing and nursing an apparent facial injury.
Mendoza told the Times that Altamirano had interrupted a conversation he was having, leading him to ask Altamirano to step back. “I guess he didn't like that and it got heated and it got loud,” Mendoza told the newspaper. Mendoza said shortly following the argument he felt a blow from behind and awoke in the hospital. He said he did not know who struck him.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-w...physical-brawl