Viral video shows homeless fighting in squalid conditions on San Francisco street

A viral video making its rounds on social media presents a grim new snapshot of San Francisco’s surging homelessness crises as two males might be seen brawling amid squalid circumstances on a metropolis sidewalk.

The surprising scene was filmed and posted to Twitter by J. Terrell Allen, who stated he stumbled upon the wild struggle in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood on a night stroll.

Video, posted to Twitter Thursday, exhibits two males — one in all whom is shirtless — wrestling on the bottom that’s affected by particles as the vast majority of different apparently homeless individuals look on with little curiosity.

One different individual, nevertheless, joins the fracas, and whacks the shirtless man with a brush.

“SOMA isn’t protected. Simply occurred. That is disgusting,” wrote Allen, who couldn’t instantly be reached for remark late Friday.

“I really like going for lengthy walks and passing by this each single day in my hood,” Allen added in a separate tweet. “Love the odor of crack and poop. Lovely San Francisco.”

Amid the chaos, one man locations a pair of sneakers in a plastic rubbish bag earlier than strolling away, in response to the video that garnered 2.4 million views by late Friday.

All of a sudden, a person on an electrical scooter speeds into the body and skids to a cease proper in entrance of the 2 males preventing. The fighters then cut up up, with the battle apparently over.

San Francisco, a metropolis of over 800,000 individuals per the 2020 census, may have as many as 20,000 homeless individuals residing on the streets by yr’s finish, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.