Viral video of San Francisco man watering homeless woman sparks outrage

San Francisco baker Edson Garcia was on a shipping run Monday morning when, stopped at a stoplight, coworkers in his car flagged down a commotion

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“In my first study, the person turned out to be [spraying] the street,” Garcia said. “After I paid a lot of attention, he became a lady

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Garcia filmed part of the fight, which shows a man spraying a homeless woman and her property with a hose

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she yells for him to stop her. It quickly went viral on TikTok and Twitter, drawing condemnation from advocates and complaints from the man

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a local art gallery owner who told a reporter Tuesday that he was not sorry for his actions.

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The San Francisco Chronicle identified the person in Garcia's video as Collier Gwin, owner of the Foster Gwin Gallery, an art gallery on the block of Montgomery

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Gwin appears in the video of Garcia leaning against a railing as he sprays a girl with water from a hose for several seconds

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The woman, sitting against a tree on the other side of the sidewalk, screams and raises her hands. Gwin asks him, "Are you going to transport?"

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