“The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car,” a spokesperson from Boxer’s office said. “She is thankful that she was not seriously injured.”
The assault and robbery occurred Monday at 1:15 p.m. local time in the 300 block of 3rd Street, the Oakland Police Department confirmed to CNN.
The suspect “forcefully took” Boxer’s cell phone and fled the area in a nearby waiting vehicle, police said.
This incident is currently being investigated by the police department’s robbery section, police said. The department is offering up to $2,000 as a reward leading to an arrest in the case.
The former Democratic senator served from 1993 to 2017, when she was succeeded by now-Vice President Kamala Harris.