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Former CIA officer says Ian Ziering got a lot 'right' in Hollywood attack, but gives word of advice
EXCLUSIVE: A former CIA officer weighed in on the pros and cons of former “Beverly Hills 90210” star Ian Ziering taking matters into his own hands when a group of people riding mini-motorized bikes swarmed his car on Hollywood Boulevard.
Video of last week’s incident shows Ziering stepping out of his car and shoving one of the bikers, before the scene devolved into a brawl. TMZ obtained video of the incident. Ziering, whose 12-year-old daughter was also in the car, explained his actions on Instagram.
“I experienced an alarming incident involving a group of individuals on mini bikes,” Ziering said. “While stuck in traffic, my car was approached aggressively by one of these riders leading to an unsettling confrontation. In an attempt to assess any damage I exited my car. This action, unfortunately, escalated into a physical altercation, which I navigated to protect myself.”
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Ian Ziering was involved in a recent altercation with people riding mini bikes on Hollywood Boulevard. (Getty Images)
Ziering said he and his daughter were both left “completely unscathed” following the scary encounter.
Jason Hanson, a former CIA officer, started with what he said Ziering did “right.”
“He gets out of the car, the guy scratches his car or hits it or whatever, you know, happens, and they start punching him, right?” Hanson told Fox News Digital on Monday. “He’s outmanned, I think it was 3-to-1. So, you could tell he had no real fighting experience. However, what he did right was – one of the things I always tell people when I train them, is remember the words, ‘movement saves lives.’”
“So it doesn’t matter if I’m teaching an evasive driving class, it doesn’t matter if I’m teaching a self-defense class, is if you just stand there, you’re going to get pummeled to death,” Hanson continued. “If you just sit there in the car, you’re going to get carjacked. So you’ve got to move out of that danger zone. So the fact that you saw him pushing his way out, he was running across the street. He was trying to run away from those guys. That was the thing he did good is he didn’t stand there and just let three, you know, people who are probably half his age, try and just punch the heck out of them. So he did a good job of moving and getting off the X.”
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However, Hanson suggested that in most cases, staying safely inside one’s vehicle is the best option. Far too many people, he said, let their “ego” get the best of them.
“One of the hardest things is and again, it’s it’s hard for me to because I, I’m very well-trained, I’m very confident in my abilities,” he said. “But if somebody flips me the bird, I just let it go. I swallow my pride. It’s not worth getting in a road rage incident kind of thing. So if somebody you know is in front of your car or marks your car or whatever, you are in a vehicle which is several thousand pounds, you can go forwards, backwards, left or right, like you’re in a safe spot. As soon as you get out, that’s when the bad things happen.
Former CIA officer Jason Hanson says Ian Ziering was “right” to flee attackers. (Fox News Digital)
“So, I 100% understand that every human being has an ego. Every human being is like, ‘Hey, you just scratched my car. I want to, I want to punch that guy.’ But you’ve got to let that stuff go. And that’s the tough part, because even me, why would I get out and have to fight 3-on-1 when I’m in this, this metal box, which is thousands of pounds and is a lot more dangerous, and is a lot more protective to me.”
Hanson is also the New York Times bestselling author of “Spy Secrets That Can Save Your Life,” and currently operates Spy Escape & Evasion, which provides lifesaving strategies and techniques to civilians and is run by Hanson and other former CIA and special operations personnel. The course is so enticing that it earned him a deal on “Shark Tank” in 2014.
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In his Instagram post following the incident, Ziering said it proved the need for increased law enforcement.
“This situation highlights a larger issue of hooliganism on our streets and the need for effective law enforcement responses to such behavior,” he said. “As a citizen and a parent, I find it unacceptable that groups can freely engage in this kind of behavior, causing fear and chaos, while the response from authorities seems insufficient.”
Polling in the last year shows two out of every three Californians believe crime is a “big problem” for them while living in the Golden State. (Fox News Photo/Joshua Comins)
Polling in the last year shows two out of every three Californians believe crime is a “big problem” for them while living in the Golden State. Oakland and San Francisco are dealing with violent crime, while Los Angeles has seen an increase in retail burglaries. And plenty of former California residents have said crime is what urged them to leave the state.
Hanson said his trainings are “100% needed more than ever” because he sees a violent society that offers “no consequences for doing bad things.”
“Which is why I’m very blessed to be so busy,” he told Fox News Digital.
Fox News’ Stephanie Giang-Paunon and Lauryn Overhultz contributed to this report.
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Court document details attack on SF mayor’s bodyguard as Lurie responds to incident
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For the first time since the attack on San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s bodyguard, one of the suspects was in court on Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins filed charges against the man. Those charges include:
- Resisting an executive officer
- Assault with force to cause bodily injury
- Willful disobedience of a court order
- Unlawful lodging at the same location from a previous citation
Mayor Daniel Lurie said the incident won’t deter him from walking the streets of the city doing what he was doing moments before his bodyguard was attacked last week.
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Multiple angles covered a dramatic altercation between one of San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s security detail and individuals on the street.
“I think I need to be able to see it myself and not just stay cloistered up and not be out of the streets. I walked the streets this morning and had some great interactions and was able to help some people,” said Mayor Lurie.
We obtained the detention motion, which revealed specific details about the incident.
The document said Mayor Lurie was riding in a car northbound on Larking Street with two of his security detail. The mayor asked the driver to stop and got out of the car with one of the officers to approach four people who were blocking the road; “two were sitting on the sidewalk… one was actually sitting in the street.” The document says one of the individuals “was aggressive” and “stepped towards the mayor,” after he asked them to move out of the road a few times. This led the bodyguard to position himself between the mayor and the individual. The document states the individual “got very close” to the officer and threatened him and said, “Bruce Lee I’ll kick your a**!”
The officer, according to the document, proceeded to shove the individual away from him “with both hands to defend himself and to create distance,” causing the individual to fall backwards on the sidewalk.
The individual quickly stood up and “rushed at the officer.”
Multiple people in the area captured the altercation on video.
We asked the mayor if he would do anything different in the future.
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“I’m not going to stop doing it. I will consult with our detail and our chief and make sure we can do this safely,” said Mayor Lurie.
San Francisco Supervisor Rafael Mandelman said he is glad the mayor sees the crisis on the streets up close.
“A lot of people will cross the street to get away from it hide from it. We don’t want our city hiding from this problem,” said Supervisor Mandelman.
Kevin Benedicto, vice president of the San Francisco police commission, said they will be looking into the incident.
“A number of commissioners are going to want to ask the chief about updates about the incident just to make sure we have all the policies and procedures in place,” said Benedicto.
The Individual who attacked the mayor’s bodyguard has been charged in the past for criminal threats in 2019 and 2020.
One of the arraignments is set for Wednesday at 9 a.m.
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Like sand through the hourglass, so too go the dumplings of the Denver Post’s annual food bracket.
Our competition started with 32 restaurants chosen by editors and readers specializing in dumplings and momos, a Tibetan and Nepali variation, in the Denver area. Two weeks later, only eight restaurants remain.
The next round of matchups in our Elite 8 competition to be decided by reader votes are:
Rocky Mountain Momo (9678 E. Arapahoe Road, Englewood) vs. ChoLon (multiple locations)
LingLon Dumpling House (2456 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver) vs. Star Kitchen (2917 W. Mississippi Ave., Denver)
Nana’s Dim Sum & Dumplings (multiple locations) vs. Dillon’s Dumpling House (3571 S. Tower Road, Unit G, Aurora)
Hop Alley (3500 Larimer St., Denver) vs. Momo Dumplings (caterer; momo-dumplings.com)
The most recent matchups recorded more than 460 entries. Our most popular head-to-head was Rocky Mountain Momo facing off against Yuan Wonton. Rocky Mountain Momo advances with 55% of 260 votes.
MAKfam, a Chinese restaurant with a Michelin nod for its value, faced a tough first-round opponent, The Empress Seafood, and scraped out a win. But this time, it wasn’t as lucky, losing to ChoLon, an upscale Asian fusion restaurant with multiple locations, by only five votes.
Make your picks below for who should advance to the next round. The online voting form will close at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, March 15.
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SEATTLE — Ryan Ufko scored his first NHL goal with 5:35 to play in the second period to put the Nashville Predators ahead to stay in a 4-2 win over the Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night.
The rookie skated in from the right of the goal, dodged between two defenders, and tucked the puck past Seattle goalie Joey Daccord to give the Predators a 3-2 lead and two critical points in their chase for a wild-card playoff spot. Right now, the team is on the outside of the playoff picture.
Tyson Jost and Reid Schaefer also scored second-period goals to erase Seattle’s 2-0 first-period lead, and Steve Stamkos added an empty-netter for his 31st goal of the season.
Jonathan Marchessault had a pair of assists for Nashville, which had lost four of its previous five, and Juuse Saros made 43 saves.
Kaapo Kakko scored just 2:14 into the game, and Matty Beniers scored at 9:46 of the first period to give the Kraken a 2-0 lead. Beniers scored from a tough angle, firing from the bottom of the right circle and over the shoulder of Saros just inside the far post.
Daccord finished with 23 saves.
Seattle’s Shane Wright scored a goal in the second, but it was waved off because of goalie interference when Ryker Evans slid into Saros and took out his feet.
The Kraken were without left wing Jaden Schwartz, who was hit in the face by a skate during Seattle’s 7-4 loss to Ottawa on Saturday.
Kraken, clinging to a wild-card slot, have now lost five of their last seven games.
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