Video shows San Francisco man spraying homeless woman with water hose - NBC News

A San Francisco antiques trader whose clientele includes big-shot businesspeople, actors and athletes was seen successful a viral societal media video spraying a stateless pistillate with a h2o hose.

The disturbing incidental was captured connected cellphone video by Edson Garcia, the proprietor of Brioche Bakery & Cafe. It showed the man, identified arsenic concern proprietor Collier Gwin, dousing the pistillate and demanding that she "move."

"I started signaling the guy, and this feline is, like, pouring h2o connected plants, and past I saw the woman similar this, and I was, like, 'Oh no, that’s a lady,'" Garcia told NBC Bay Area.

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Gwin, the proprietor of Foster Gwin Gallery, told the presumption Tuesday that the pistillate is known astir the neighborhood. He said that successful the past, helium had to telephone the constabulary and metropolis societal services aggregate times after, helium said, the pistillate became disruptive.

"There’s perfectly thing that tin beryllium done. They’ll instrumentality her to a shelter, and they volition crook her retired successful 2 days," helium said. "They volition instrumentality her to the hospital. They volition merchandise her wrong a day."

Gwin did not archer the presumption wherefore helium sprayed the woman.

Garcia said that helium knows the pistillate and that she has ever appeared "very calm."

"That woman doesn't spell wrong the business. She sleeps connected the street," helium said.

Officers responded to the concern and spoke with Gwin and the woman, a constabulary spokesperson said. Both of them said they did not privation to instrumentality further constabulary action. The San Francisco Street Crisis Response Team besides responded and provided aggregate work options to the woman.

The incidental has been transferred to the constabulary department's investigations bureau for imaginable further action, the spokesperson said.

San Francisco is successful a homelessness crisis, which has agelong frustrated residents and concern owners. On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged $750 cardinal to wide the state’s stateless encampments, SFGATE reported, portion of a larger $15.3 cardinal bundle that would beryllium utilized to code the crisis.

Newsom’s ngo to wide the encampments has been a hot-button issue. Last year, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and others filed a national suit on behalf of the Coalition connected Homelessness and 7 radical who were astatine hazard of being unhoused. The suit alleged that sweeping the encampments violated aggregate law rights. A justice ruled successful favour of the radical and temporarily banned the metropolis from clearing camps until it was capable to supply capable beds astatine stateless shelters.

Garcia declined to beryllium interviewed erstwhile contacted by NBC News connected Wednesday.

Gwin did not instantly reply to a petition for comment. A connection connected the gallery's website reads: "This tract is presently undergoing scheduled maintenance. We volition beryllium backmost soon!"

Gwin "specializes successful San Francisco abstract expressionist paintings and sculptures from the precocious 1940s done the 1960s," according to a 2018 nonfiction by the Nob Hill Gazette. His clients see histrion and erstwhile California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; the precocious banker David Rockefeller; erstwhile shot subordinate Ichiro Suzuki; Gregg Popovich, the president and caput manager of the San Antonio Spurs; and Joe Lacob, the bulk proprietor of the Golden State Warriors, according to the magazine.