. Video that captured the owner and operator of Foster Gwin Gallery on Montgomery Street in the city's Financial District spraying the homeless woman with a garden hose late Monday morning went viral. San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday"The alleged battery of an unhoused member of our community is completely unacceptable. Mr. Gwin will face appropriate consequences for his actions," the SF District Attorney's Office release read.
The release also noted that"the vandalism at Foster Gwin gallery is also completely unacceptable and must stop – two wrongs don't make a right.""What they saw is very regrettable," Gwin told KPIX in an interview."I feel awful, not just because I want to get out of trouble, or something like that, but because I'd put a tremendous amount of effort into helping this woman on the street."Gwin has lived in San Francisco for 45 years.
"I'm very, very sorry, I'm not going to defend myself, I'm not going to, because I can't defend that," he said. Gwin said he and other business owners in the area have called SFPD and social services more than two dozen times in the last two weeks. "I said she needs psychiatric help," Gwin said."You can tell, she's pulling her hair, she's screaming, she's talking in tongues, you can't understand anything she says, she's throwing food everywhere." "I've been down here 40 years.
Since the incident, the woman has started receiving assistance from the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
City makes billions off the misery of the homeless. All these enabling programs (non profits which are actually very profitable) set up to help these ppl. All for more Fed $ but crisis worse, not better! Not sure why local media not doing major expose on city. Being paid not to?
What he did terrible but not worth jail time in my POV. This incident has garnered so much publicity tho that it should rightly shame LondonBreed sfbos sfgov as it highlights homeless crisis in our city. I hope Federal govt looks in to how they spend the Fed $ given to SF.
SFPD SFDAOffice Rightfully so. Now please do the guy that KPIX showed trying to kick in the door of the house in the Marina district on this morning’s news.
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