Gallery owner Collier Gwin in San Francisco police custody for spraying homeless woman with hose

Gallery owner Collier Gwin was taken into police custody Wednesday after the San Francisco DA’s Office issued an arrest warrant for misdemeanor battery in connection with him spraying an unhoused woman with a hose last week.

The San Francisco District Attorney Office sent out a press release and DA Brooke Jenkins tweeted about the warrant Wednesday afternoon. According to authorities, Gwin will be “charged with misdemeanor battery for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman experiencing homelessness on January 9, 2022.”

The DA’s office said if convicted, Gwin faces up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday said the incident reminded her of how police treated civil rights protesters during the 1960s.

“The alleged battery of an unhoused member of our community is completely unacceptable. Mr. Gwin will face appropriate consequences for his actions,” the SF District Attorney’s Office release read.

The release also noted that “the vandalism at Foster Gwin gallery is also completely unacceptable and must stop – two wrongs don’t make a right.”

Gwin has lived in San Francisco for 45 years. He said this confrontation was the result of multiple attempts to get the woman help, after he spent days cleaning up her mess and letting her sleep in his doorway. He added that she often knocks over trash cans, and her behavior has scared off his clients.

“I’m very, very sorry, I’m not going to defend myself, I’m not going to, because I can’t defend that,” he said.

Gwin said he and other business owners in the area have called SFPD and social services more than two dozen times in the last two weeks.

“I said she needs psychiatric help,” Gwin said. “You can tell, she’s pulling her hair, she’s screaming, she’s talking in tongues, you can’t understand anything she says, she’s throwing food everywhere.”

Gwin said on Monday, he’d had enough.

“I’ve been down here 40 years. I’ve seen tons of homeless people, we’ve helped the ones that we could, and I have not had any issues with people,” he said. “But in this case, I was very upset, that the city could not help, and their hands are tied too.”

This is the video that went viral:

Only in San Francisco. Business owner #reelsinstagram #shorts #briochesf @sfgov @SFGate @SupervisorTang @AaronPeskin @Telemundo48 No respect ✊? pic.twitter.com/Gn2mmPpLtb

— #briochesf (@briochesf) January 9, 2023

Other news stories gave more details:

Gwin told the Chronicle that he had been letting the woman sleep in his doorway for days and was speaking with the city about getting her assistance. He claimed that he started spraying her with the hose after she refused to leave and became belligerent.

Barbarossa Lounge owner Arash Ghanadan confirmed details from Gwin’s statement – that the woman had been posted there for days and local business owners had been trying to get her assistance from the city – but he disagreed on how to treat her.

San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin posted about the incident on Twitter, calling it an “unconscionable assault” and saying police were “soliciting witness statements to ensure this man is charged.”

He also said that his office was “well acquainted with the victim” and had by trying to get support for her from the San Francisco Department of Public Health “for months.”

Gwin’s interview explains his perspective:

“I said you have to move; I cannot clean the street; move down,” said Gwin, describing the confrontation late Monday morning with a woman he later identified as “Cora.” “She starts screaming belligerent things, spitting, yelling at me…. At that point she was so out of control…. I spray her with the hose and say move, move. I will help you.”

In the Chronicle interview, Gwin complained that the woman behaved erratically and had a tendency to leave possessions on the sidewalk. He referred to himself as “a champion” who tried to help her by letting her sleep in his entryway for multiple days, calling social services and communicating with police officials in a bid to get assistance for her. But the situation only worsened, he said.

He said the woman has refused to leave the area, is often belligerent and often turns over garbage cans that he then has to clean up.

So let’s review the situation.

A crazy homeless woman is camping out in a business’s doorway for days.

She vandalized his property, damaged it, caused a mess, and drove away his customers.

The business owner calls the city and tries to get her help.

The city fails to do it’s job.

In a moment of frustration, the business owner, who had ben tolerant of this damage to his business, squirts the woman with a garden hose.

The city immediately rushes into action to arrest him and turn him into a criminal.

All of the damage the woman did to his property goes unpunished.

This is everything wrong with society.

The city, and the virtue signaling assholes who made the video go viral, prioritizes a homeless woman’s destruction of a business over the businessman’s ability to provide a clean and safe environment for his customers or to make a living.

I am suddenly reminded of this quote:

“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone decided to clear a homeless encampment from their property with an armored bulldozer.

At least 74 Illinois sheriff’s departments vow to defy state assault weapons ban

Just days after Illinois became the ninth U.S. state to ban assault rifles, the state already hit a roadblock to implementing the law: defiant sheriff’s offices.

At least 74 Illinois sheriff’s departments have publicly vowed to defy elements of a recent gun-control law signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, which banned assault weapons, high-capacity magazines and switches. The offices have vowed to not check if weapons are registered with the state or house individuals arrested only for not complying with the law.

As the number of uncooperative sheriff’s offices increased, Pritzker has made his own vow – to ensure those members of law enforcement who fail to “do their job… won’t be in their job.”

The Illinois Sheriffs’ Association issued a statement Wednesday expressing continued opposition to the law. Simultaneously, dozens of sheriff’s offices began to post nearly identical messages promising they would not check for compliance with the law or arrest offenders of the law.

Many of the sheriffs defying the law have described their opposition to the law as akin to civil disobedience to protect the Second Amendment.

“We will not be enforcing it in this county; I will also not house anyone in my jail that has violated this act because we know it to be an unlawful act by the general assembly and the governor,” Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Bullard Sr. said in an online video.

Of course, the Left is going monkeyshit over this, demanding all these sheriffs be fired.

I’d like to see the Venn Diagram of people who think these sheriffs should get fired and those who thought it was wrong for DeSantis to fire Scott Israel after the Broward County Sheriff’s Office fucked up the Parkland shooting response.  I bet it’s a perfect circle.

This reminds me of the fight over concealed carry in Illinois.

After Moore v. Madigan reqired Illinois to addopt CCW, Downstate sheriffs announced that if the state didn’t pass the law by the Court’s imposed cutoff date, they’d default to constitutional carry.

Southern Illinois is not Chicago.

These sheriffs clearly took their duty to uphold and defend the Constitution seriously.

This is good.

This video has been going around:

Full clip pic.twitter.com/6iZgG7RQgl

— BigblackniglI (@NigLlt) January 17, 2023

I have listened to this video several times.

I have no idea what the boy said to the girl.

It really doesn’t matter because at the time the girl threw the first punch, the boy had backed away, was not facing her, and had his hands full.  He was not in any sort of aggressive posture.

The girl put on a pair of brass knuckles before sucker-punching the boy in the side of his head.

A hit like that absolutely has the potential to be lethal.

It looks like she hit him in the temple or side of the eye.

With brass knuckles, that could easily have done enough damage to cause blindness or the loss of the eye.

This was not defensive, this was assault.

The two things to note.

First:

It’s scary how many people in the comment thread think that a girl sucker-punching a boy is with brass knuckles is fine of the boy said something rude to her, and conversely, since she did punch him, he must have deserved it.

It’s that male privilege that you can take a sucker-punch to the dome with brass knuckles and everyone thinks you deserved it.

Second:

Watch the hands.  This girl had time to put on a weapon and close distance while the boy was distracted. Your fight is not over when you decide it’s over but when your enemy decides it’s over.  Just because you back away doesn’t mean your opponent will let you walk away.  Maintain your situational awareness until you achieve safe distance.

Now SPACE is racist! Woke Colorado astrophysics professor moans her field is riddled with ‘white supremacy’ and sexism – with colleagues using ‘hypermasculine’ and ‘violent’ language to describe the cosmos

A Colorado astrophysicist has claimed her field is steeped in white supremacy and sexism because ‘hypermasculine’ and ‘violent’ language is used to describe stars.

Natalie Gosnell, an assistant professor at Colorado College, takes an unconventional approach to physics by comparing stars with humans to turn science into an art.

In an interview with the college newspaper she claimed she has struggled to overcome a division between art and science that is rooted in ‘systemic racism.’

Her work aims ‘to cross typical disciplinary boundaries to create art-science pieces that re-inscribe outer space as feminist space,’ she said on her website.

‘Both artists and scientists are just observing things about the world, interpreting those observations, and then sharing their interpretation,’ Gosnell told Colorado College News.

‘As an astrophysicist, I am a product of institutions steeped in systemic racism and white supremacy,’ she said.

Suggestions that academic fields like science and engineering are male-dominated are common and generally accepted but Gosnell goes further by arguing that the language used to describe scientific phenomena is sexist and racist.

The way in which stars burn through their fuel and die is viewed through a ‘hypermasculine’ lens and the metaphors used are often ‘very violent,’ she claimed.

Gosnell, who studies binary star systems using telescopes and imaging, has said she tries to combine art and science because the two fields are more similar than people think.

More recently she was involved in a creative project, The Gift, which was an experimental piece of theater that anthropomorphized blue stragglers and made comparisons between the life spans and interactions of stars and humans.

I have always been a space junkie.

I’ve written before about how I decided to become an engineer because my dad took me to see Apollo 13 in theaters as a kid.

I admired men like Kelly Johnson and Gene Kranz.

Mem who wore skinny ties, smoked Luky Strikes, and broke the sound barrier and put men on the moon with slide rules.

This is space today.

A feminist astrophysics who complains about the sexist language of stars and creates performance art pieces about her research.

I can imagine this in Houston in April of 1970.

“Houston, we have a problem.”

“That’s negative, masculine language. We don’t have a problem. We have an opportunity to do some constructive brainstorming in a safe place.”

“The CO2 scrubbers from the orbiter won’t fit in the lander, we’re running out of air.”

“Excess CO2 is a problem here on earth too.”

“We need to make this (orbiter scrubber) fit in the hole for this (lander scrubber) using nothing but that.”

“That is the sexist language of toxic masculinity.  You men see everything as holes to put your things in.  That’s dehumanizing and oppressive.  Report to HR now.”

[Astronauts die.]

Everything woke turns to shit and the woke are going to kill space science.

The safest part is that the death of space science won’t inspire the next generation of Johnsons or Kranzs, but will inspire the next generation of mediocre scientists to use woke language to get victim status.

Miss. lineman airlifted after being mauled by pack of pit bulls

A lineman was attacked by a pack of pit bull dogs Tuesday afternoon in Carroll County.

According to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office, police received a call about a pit bull attack off of Highway 35 North near Holcomb around 2:41 p.m.

Ivan Bubba Rawles III, a lineman for Delta Electric, was attacked by five “full-blooded” pit bulls after he finished a service call. His vehicle became stuck after he was reversing down a long driveaway of the house.

Rawles was then approached by the pack of pit bulls after he left his vehicle and began walking back towards the home of the Mabry family.

Police say that Mr. Mabry shot a weapon into the air to attempt to scare the dogs off of Rawles, killing one dog in the process. The Mabry family, along with a neighbor, Mrs. Gillon, who is a nurse, began to aid Rawles until deputies and Medstat personnel arrived at the scene.

He most certainly did not shoot into the air to scare off the dogs and accidentally hit one.  He shot the dog with intent and either lied to the media or lied to the police thinking admitting shooting a dog would get him into trouble.

The sheriff’s office says the victim reportedly suffered deep lacerations and lost a large amount of blood.

The owner of the dogs, David Nicholas Smith, put the four remaining dogs down himself. According to police, Smith was not in compliance with Carroll County’s Pit Bull Ordinance and will face charges upon the completion of the investigation.

That was the only decent thing Smith did with his pitbulls.  He deserves to be charged for having five of them and letting them roam free.

Despite the blood loss, it seems like Rawles will make a recovery and not lose and body parts.

H/T: Miguel

Remember this idiocy:

He outdid himself:

Biden: "We have to retrain cops. Why should you always shoot with deadly force? The fact is if you need to use your weapon, you don't have to do that." pic.twitter.com/S5WaUHYhff

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 16, 2023

It started with this Tweet going viral:

At the University of Michigan, a call to murder Jews. pic.twitter.com/UoA0LUft1h

— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) January 13, 2023

Let’s not bullshit ourselves.

When someone uses the word “solution” in relation to Jews, we know exactly what you are referencing.  The term “final solution” is too well known and understood.  Dropping the “final” to play coy or give yourself plausible deniability is disingenuous.

We also know what Intifada means.  There have been three concentrated waves of terrorism carried out by Hamas, the PLO, and the PFLP.

The First Intifada was from 1987 to 1993.

The Second Intifada or Al-Aqsa Intifada was from 2000 to 2005 and was noted for bombings of busses, restaurants, and other public venues where Jews congregated.  The Second Intifada also saw wide spread homemade rocket attacks.

The third Intifada or Knife Intifada was from 2015 to 2016.  Due to security measures put in place after the Second Intifada, Palestinians had less ability to smuggle guns and explosives inside of Israel and took to buying kitchen knives and stabbing Jews.  Some Palestinians also tired to run Jews over if they had cars inside Israel.

So, again, we know what words mean.

Enter the Leftist antisemites and Palestinian apologists, including Leftist Yevsektsiya Jews.

Anybody watching the Left knows this play from the Leftist playbook: “that’s not happening and it’s good that it is.”

The majority of comments were to the effect of:

“Intifada means ‘shaking off’ it’s not a call to murder Jews.”

“The ‘solution’ is a two state solution, not a call for genocide.”

“This isn’t threat of violence.”

The it’s not happening part.  Followed by:

“Palestinians have the duty to rise up against Israeli oppression.”

“Israel is an apartheid state and deserves what it gets.”

The it’s good that it’s happening part.

These comments outnumbered everything else 10 to 1.

Downplaying the threat of then justifying antisemitic violence.

Just wait until this turns into actual violence.

We’ve seen how Jews are the overwhelming majority of religious motivated hate crimes and how that is ignored by the media and powers that be,  because the perpetrators are overwhelming not Right Wing white supremacists.

The Hanas has been calling for the globalization of the Intifada.  Attacking Jews around the world as a way of attacking the Jewish state.

This is that.  Right now it’s protests.

It will turn violent.

Then it will be ignored by the media or justified as pent up Palestinian anger.

Until some Jew fights back.  Then it will be a crisis, because the only thing Jews are allowed to do is die.

The level of naked antisemitism seen in public today from The Left is reaching heights not seen since WWII ended.

Jews, take note, we need to be prepared for what’s coming.