The actor, 80, was involved in a fight at a 4th of July parade. Danny Trejo is speaking out following a Fourth of July parade brawl he was involved in on Thursday. "It’s sad that people can wake up in the morning and go down and ruin something for everybody else," he told local Fox 11.
"I am a protector. I will protect all my friends, always, and that’s what I was doing," he added. Video uploaded to Facebook showed the 80-year-old actor pushing and shoving through a crowd during a parade in Sunland-Tujunga, just outside L.
A. Danny Trejo told Fox 11, ""It’s sad that people can wake up in the morning and go down and ruin something for everybody else" following the parade brawl. (Getty/James Spishak, Facebook) 'MACHETE' ACTOR DANNY TREJO IN NASTY JULY 4TH BRAWL AFTER BEING HIT BY WATER BALLOON Fox 11 also obtained video showing Trejo confronting a group of people after being hit with water bottles and water balloons.
The Sunland-Tujunga Rotary Club invited Trejo to ride in the parade in one of its classic low-rider cars, and Trejo told Fox 11 that all was going well "and then BAM, all of a sudden our car got hit by a water balloon." Trejo said he got out of the car because "[s]omebody yelled it was acid, I thought they messed up Tony’s car," also alleging there was a chlorine smell. "Somebody yelled, ‘It’s acid!’ And I panicked, I got out of the car to look and then a balloon hit me, and then I saw the guy throwing it," he continued.
Trejo alleged he heard someone .
