San Francisco Mayor London Breed challenges after dancing without a mask

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is digging in his heels after kicking them without a mask last week.

Breed, who issued one of the state’s strictest indoor mask warrants last month, refused to back down after being photographed at a city jazz club dancing and singing without a mask earlier this week.

“While I eat and drink I will keep my mask on,” Breed, a Democrat, told reporters while calling the story a “distraction,” Fox News reported on Saturday. “And yes, back when we drank like everyone else there, we all had fun and still got vaccinated.”

Breed said reporters should focus on bringing live music back to San Francisco. She added that putting a mask between eating and drinking is not “realistic”.

“The fact that it’s even a story is sad,” she said.

But the City of Breed ordinance requires masks indoors, vaccinated or not, unless the person is actively eating or drinking.

“My glass was sitting at the table. I got up and started dancing because I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking of a mask, ”Breed said. “I thought I was having a good time and in the process I followed the sanitary guidelines.”

Breed added that she and other club goers “don’t need the funny police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing.”

“The fact that this story is about me and less about the artists and the nightlife, which I will continue to enjoy in San Francisco, is very unfortunate,” she told reporters.

Breed announced the need for a new mask tenure in August as the Delta variant increased.

“Our economy and our livelihoods, and our kids going back to school, and everything else depends on it,” she said at the time.

Photos and video from the event showed almost no one in the club wearing a mask.

The Black Cat Nightclub’s Instagram page posted, and then deleted, a photo showing Breed smiling and partying with friends without a mask on Wednesday night, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. She was accompanied by Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza and singer Raphael Saadiq.