S.F. antiques dealer who was recorded spraying a homeless woman with a water hose is arrested
The San Francisco antiques dealer who was denounced after video showed him spraying a homeless woman with a water hose was arrested Wednesday and charged with battery.
The San Francisco antiques dealer whose gallery was vandalized and denounced online after viral video showed him spraying a homeless woman with a water hose was arrested Wednesday and charged with battery, authorities said.
Collier Gwin, 71, was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge, police said. He was booked late Wednesday afternoon into the San Francisco County Jail, where he was being held on $2,500 bail, according to jail records. No court date has been set.
A nearby business owner recorded video of Gwin spraying the woman on the sidewalk outside Foster Gwin Gallery on Jan. 9.
Gwin told NBC Bay Area at the time that he had called police and city social services frequently in the past after the woman became disruptive. Police have not publicly identified the woman.
“There’s absolutely nothing that can be done. They’ll take her to a shelter, and they will turn her out in two days,” he said at the time. “They will take her to the hospital. They will release her within a day.”
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