Danny Trejo breaks silence on Fourth of July parade brawl with ‘coward’ after water balloon attack: ‘That’s when I panicked’

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chaotic brawl involving the iconic actor. The “Machete” star was riding in the passenger seat in a baby blue convertible alongside his buddy Mario Castillo, driving through the Sunland-Tujunga neighborhood when a water balloon was thrown at them, the actor told TMZ.Trejo said he panicked when he seemingly heard somebody yell that the balloon contained “acid.”“I’m so sad, by the way I behaved, so sad that grown men have to throw water balloons to enjoy a day,” Trejo told the outlet. “I don’t think I would’ve gotten out of the car if someone hadn’t yelled ‘it’s acid.’ That’s when I panicked,” he added.

Trejo hopped out of the car to confront a group of people on the sidewalk and began fighting with one man who wore a black sleeveless shirt.The alleged suspect threw a punch at Trejo as the two grabbed at each other, resulting in the actor falling backward onto the street, video obtained by KTTV captured.Trejo and Castillo claimed they were singled out because they are Mexican, especially since no one else was struck with water balloons during the parade.“It was targeted, because there was no one else being it by balloons in front of us or behind us,” Castillo said. “You know it was just at our lowrider.”“Come on, you got a classic lowrider in a parade, that is the last thing you want getting water, or anything in it,” he added.Nearly a dozen people had surrounded the classic car to greet the legendary actor when a paradegoer allegedly threw a water balloon. “There were like eight, nine, ten people around this car when they threw that balloon, so somebody wasn’t worried that they weren’t gonna hit anybody else,” he explained.Trejo told TMZ he only reacted because someone grabbed him first.According to the Los Angeles Times,.