SF art gallery owner apologizes hours after forum held condemning him for spraying unhoused person

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Non secular and group leaders from throughout San Francisco are discussing an unpleasant incident caught on video, exhibiting an unhoused particular person being hosed down by a pissed off enterprise proprietor.

“You have seen it, you’ve got seen it, you’ve got examine it. Now it is time for us to place into context what San Francisco should do,” stated Rev. Amos Brown, Third Baptist Church pastor. “It took us again to the times that when in Birmingham Alabama that sheriff hosed down civil rights employees again within the 60s.”

Rev. Brown urged folks to not level the finger, throughout a townhall at Third Baptist Church Sunday.

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“You possibly can’t blame the person. Cannot blame the board of supervisors. All of us should settle for blame,” stated Rev. Brown, calling for a extra holistic method to serving to the unhoused.

“We should not have simplistic, reductionist considering and planning anymore on this challenge of homelessness, of unhoused folks on this city.”

“I do not suppose any of us consider we must always simply usher folks off of the streets to nowhere. As a substitute, we ought to be ensuring they’ve a spot to go and obtain the remedy they want, stated San Francisco District Lawyer, Brooke Jenkins. “In latest historical past within the DA’s workplace we had a state of affairs with folks being referred to applications that weren’t acceptable for his or her explicit challenge or weren’t adequate to deal with their particular downside.”

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In the meantime, Rev. Brown is asking for an apology from the artwork gallery proprietor, Collier Gwin.

“It will be the gentleman-like humane factor to do and I have been attempting to come up with him,” stated Rev. Brown.

ABC7 Information reached out to Gwin and he responded late Sunday night time prepared with an apology that may be seen within the participant under.

VIDEO: SF artwork gallery proprietor apologizes after viral video exhibits him spraying unhoused particular person with water hose

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