San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday said the recent incident involving a homeless woman being sprayed with a hose reminded her of how police treated civil rights protesters during the 1960s.
. Video captured the gallery owner -- identified as Collier Gwin, owner and operator of Foster Gwin Gallery on Montgomery Street in the city's Financial District -- spraying a homeless woman with a garden hose late Monday morning.Reporters on Friday morning asked the mayor about the confrontation that was captured in a video that went viral and sparked both widespread anger and.
"When I saw it, all I can think about is what happened during the civil rights movement," Breed said."Sadly, at a time when African Americans were fighting for our rights to be considered equal in this country, even at that time law enforcement and others used water hoses to stop protesters. And it just kind of takes us back unfortunately to that time. And no other human being should be able to do that to any other human being, period.
Her comments echoed what Rev. Amos Brown -- the president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP --when he called the video"an immensely disturbing image of violence and inhumanity." "They [the images] are especially disturbing as we approach the holiday marking Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday," his statement read."As a Black man who was active in the fight for Civil Rights in the 50s and 60s, the scene was chillingly reminiscent of the images of 'Bull' Conner turning the fire-hoses on Black protesters in Birmingham in 1963.
Rev. Brown added,"The images in San Francisco today must be a similar wake-up call for change. It's past time for the City to fully enact the Care Not Cash program that I first proposed when I was on the Board of Supervisors." "As far as I'm concerned, it's assault. And there should be consequences," the mayor said."Clearly, we know that there are people on our streets who are struggling with mental illness with substance-use disorder.
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