HOLLYWOOD, CA – MARCH 11: Danny Trejo arrives on the Los Angeles premiere of “Muppets Most Needed” held on the El Capitan Theatre on March 11, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Michael Tran/FilmMagic)
Actor Danny Trejo, the “Machete” star and Los Angeles native, believes his race was an element within the brawl that passed off at a parade on the Fourth of July.
In an interview with TMZ, Trejo and his unnamed good friend mentioned {that a} man randomly threw a water balloon on the classic convertible they had been driving in throughout a parade in L.A.’s Sunland-Tujunga neighborhood. Trejo didn’t notice it was filled with water at first, resulting in his involved response.
“I don’t assume I might have even gotten out of the automotive if someone hadn’t yelled ‘it’s acid,’” the 80-year-old actor mentioned. “That’s after I received panicked.”
Actor Danny Trejo was concerned in a scuffle at an Independence Day parade on July 4, 2024. (Getty/James Spishak /TMX)
Whereas Trejo admitted to throwing the brawl’s first punch, he says one of many males grabbed his chest beforehand.
Trejo stumbled when the person fought again however he managed to keep away from harm. His good friend confirmed TMZ a number of bruises throughout his physique, together with a blackened eye. He mentioned the boys stomped on his arms when he was on the bottom.
Footage obtained by TMZ exhibits actor Danny Trejo, within the white shirt, confronting a person alongside the Independence Day Parade route in Sunland-Tujunga in Los Angeles on July 4, 2024. (TMZ)
The pair consider their Mexican descent made them targets.
“I’m simply unhappy that there’s nonetheless folks like, from the [1950s] and 60s that also really feel the identical manner,” Trejo mentioned. “As a result of nobody else was focused.”
Trejo’s good friend informed TMZ that “it was focused,” and nobody else concerned with the parade had balloons thrown at them.
Out and in of California jails in his early years, Trejo reformed himself to start a profitable profession in movie beginning within the Nineteen Eighties. He’s since starred in motion pictures like “From Nightfall Until Daybreak,” and “As soon as Upon a Time in Mexico,” earlier than beginning enterprise ventures in L.A. like a donut store and taco restaurant.