<p style="font-weight: 400;">A San Francisco art gallery owner hosed down a homeless woman whom he said refused to move from his storefront, had turned over garbage cans, and become belligerent, prompting the city to arrest him and charge him with battery.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Collier Gwin, the owner of Foster Gwin art gallery, sprayed the homeless woman on January 9. When interviewed after a video of the incident went viral, he said, “I totally understand what an awful thing that is to do, but I also understand what an awful thing it is to leave her on the streets,” adding that repeated attempts had been made to help the woman for weeks before the incident.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is horrible. This awful man is spraying a homeless woman down with a hose. You can hear her yell “Help Me!”</p>
<p>Does anyone recognize him? Is he affiliated with Barbarossa Lounge? This is inhumane and inexcusable.</p>
<p>Shout out to @briochessf for posting the video. <a href="https://t.co/3ZKeRP4gar">pic.twitter.com/3ZKeRP4gar</a></p>
<p>&mdash; (((BrokeAssStuart))) (@BrokeAssStuart) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrokeAssStuart/status/1612853395345510401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I said, ‘You have to move, I cannot clean the street, move down,’” Gwin <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/san-francisco-gallery-owner-sprayed-101855376.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC_xdiBv7Lt4R5YRtb-LHjcxDt6VpVYie269mwGDqDwUycZzbty2mDCrdTOnEQ3dPPNOX0DqlciHg1k3w6KDzfpn6DPFA8fgdOQL4na6BQLWHu1aUItXQf2mI-9OgIk5vztLkL9gKx59jd8JyhjqEJDRfY8DQNa0-GqlikYwkemt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The San Francisco Chronicle. “She starts screaming belligerent things, spitting, yelling at me. At that point, she was so out of control &#8230; I spray her with the hose and say, ‘Move, move. I will help you.’”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I&#8217;ve been here for 40 years,” he <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/san-francisco-gallery-owner-sprayed-101855376.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC_xdiBv7Lt4R5YRtb-LHjcxDt6VpVYie269mwGDqDwUycZzbty2mDCrdTOnEQ3dPPNOX0DqlciHg1k3w6KDzfpn6DPFA8fgdOQL4na6BQLWHu1aUItXQf2mI-9OgIk5vztLkL9gKx59jd8JyhjqEJDRfY8DQNa0-GqlikYwkemt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> a San Francisco resident. “We have tons of homeless. But they haven&#8217;t been in a situation where they get that violent [within] 10 days of the neighborhood trying to do something. We have been able to get them taken to a shelter, which they leave immediately.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;ve listened to her talk to the people and saying, ‘No, this is the way I want to live. My idea of cleanliness is not your idea of cleanliness,’” the resident replied.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“That&#8217;s fine, as long as she knows what she&#8217;s saying,” Gwin responded.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“We called the police; there must be 25 calls on record,” Gwin said later. “It’s two days in a homeless shelter’ it’s two days in jail, and then they drop them back off on the street. This woman is — it’s a very, very sad situation, and she’s very psychotic.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“I find it hard to apologize when we’ve had no help with this situation,” he concluded.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">ABC News Bay Area <a href="https://www.wbay.com/2023/01/12/man-seen-video-spraying-water-hose-homeless-woman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that multiple people in the area of the art gallery described the woman as a “nuisance.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Following the incident, community and religious leaders, including San Francisco DA Brooke Jenkins attended an event to discuss the fallout, and Gwin’s store was vandalized. Gwin offered an <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/S-F-gallery-owner-who-sprayed-homeless-woman-in-17723223.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">apology</a> for the initial incident, saying, “There’s a breaking point. I have the video to constantly remind me that this is a large cross to bear.”</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">“Mr. Gwin will face appropriate consequences for his actions,” Jenkins declared.</p>

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