California city councilman attacked with concrete block, U.S. Park Police investigate

A Millbrae city council member says he was attacked while hiking with his family in a San Francisco national park on Saturday night.

Anders Fung, who represents the city just south of San Francisco, was heading down a steep trail near Lands End with his wife and two children on a steep trail when he was hit in the head with a block of concrete from above.  

At first he thought it was an accident, according to an interview with KTVU Fox 2.

"As my family came to my rescue, they looked up and was yelling at the perpetrator who was still throwing objects, heavy objects, down from above. About 20 feet high," Fung said.

“When my family confronted the perpetrators demanding them to stop, one of them gave my family an obscene hand gesture,” Fung wrote on Facebook, who described both as wearing hoodies.

The two then ran off but a family member chased them to get a picture of them from behind.

The councilman sustained a 2-inch laceration to the head and a cervical disk herniation around his neck, according to Facebook. He was treated at California Pacific Medical Center and is expected to have a full recovery.

The U.S. Park Police is handling the investigation, as Lands End is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Fung stopped short of calling it a hate crime but also said he doesn’t think it was a coincidence.

"I’ll be happy to work with the U.S. Attorney’s office should they be able to bring the perpetrator to justice, and properly categorize this incident, this crime that was committed against me. But what is undeniable in what happened, an AAPI elected official was assaulted yesterday," Fung said.