George Lopez with Hooters scuffle

Video of the incident, recorded by the celebrity news site TMZ and shows the encounter between the two men.

The beginning of the video shows the Lopez as he walks by.

"Here comes my boy George … Jorge Lopez," the man says while filming.

Lopez is then trying to snatch the phone and grab the back of the man's neck.

"He's a bad-ass – look at him, he wants to fight me, he wants to fight me!" the man says in the video.

The men were well separated and Lopez left the restaurant.

Provoked?

Lopez was in Las Cruces filming the upcoming movie-based movie "Walking with Herb."

Police talked to Lopez the day after the encounter at Red Hawk Golf Course, where some movie scenes were filmed. He told police he was baited into the altercation.

The victim and Lopez have differing stories about what happened in the moment.

According to the police report obtained by the Sun-News, the police arrived at the restaurant and noticed a group of people taking photos with Lopez. The man told police he asked Lopez for a photo. The man claims Lopez grabbed his cell phone, recorded his own genital area, and returned the phone.

The man told police he then returned to the waiting area by the front door. Later, the man said, he saw Lopez leaving the restaurant and that's when he started to record again, according to the police report.

Lopez told police he and the film crew went to Hooters that night "to watch the Rams game." While seated, Lopez said, "Lose up," "MAGA," referring to the Donald Trump chorus, "Make America Great Again."

Lopez, who has not been shy about sharing his dislike for the president, was filmed last year on a water bottle, simulating urination, on the president's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Following the incident at the table at Hooters, Lopez told police at the front door and waited at the restaurant.

He told his story, while recording on his cell phone, and that he was trying to reach for the phone and stop the filming. Lopez admitted to the police he grabbed the man during the encounter.

Lopez believes the man was waiting for him to "get him upset on camera because of his" MAGA 'statements, "according to the police report.

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Edward James Olmos, right, and George Lopez between "Walking with Herb" at Red Hawk Golf Club, Thursday October 11, 2018. (Photo: Josh Bachman / Sun-News)

Patron intervenes

Lopez told the police one of the bosses who helped the other. The boss allegedly said "Do not come back to New Mexico" and "Nobody wants you to be here."

The patron spoke to the Sun-News and asked not to be identified. He said that he was what Lopez was wrong, which is why he intervened.

"The video is so much explains it, it's what it was, what did it do?" "the boss said. "No matter what the case may be, he should have never grabbed him." That's what you're supposed to do. else. "