Hugh Mungus

On August 10, 2016, Pantoja spoke at a public meeting of the Seattle City Council, supporting a new police station in the North Precinct, crediting the police for helping his heroin-addicted daughter getting treatment. Black Lives Matter activists were present demonstrating against the police expansion, and were recorded off-camera speaking out of turn and deriding Pantoja as he spoke.[2] At the meeting, activist Zarna Joshi spoke against the new police station and police in general. After the meeting, she was videotaping Pantoja when he was asked his name. When Pantoja offered the gag name "Hugh Mungus", Joshi responded by angrily and repeatedly asking "Humongous what?", accusing him of sexual harassment, pursuing him with her camera, and ultimately ending up in an altercation with the authorities present