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SF DA issues arrest warrant for gallery owner accused of hosing woman
San Francisco police on Wednesday arrested Collier Gwin, the gallery owner who was captured on video spraying a homeless woman with a garden hose after he said she refused to move from a sidewalk he was cleaning.
Gwin will be charged with misdemeanor battery “for the alleged intentional and unlawful spraying of water on and around a woman experiencing homelessness” on Jan. 9, District Attorney Jenkins said in a statement released after she had reviewed evidence from the San Francisco Police Department.
“The alleged battery of an unhoused member of our community is completely unacceptable,” Jenkins continued. “Mr. Gwin will face appropriate consequences for his actions.”
She added that the subsequent vandalism of Foster Gwin Gallery, which had a door smashed and boarded up two days after the video went viral, was also “unacceptable and must stop.”
Gwin was arrested around 3:30 p.m. at or near his gallery. If convicted, Gwin faces up to six months in county jail and a $2,000 fine.
As of last week, the woman, known in the area as Q, was hospitalized, but her current situation Wednesday wasn’t immediately clear.
On Tuesday, nearly a week after the event, Gwin apologized, saying he was committed to making amends. He previously said he found it “hard to apologize.”
A person who answered the intercom at Foster Gwin Gallery at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday said Collier Gwin was not there. The gallery front window had been replaced — and a sheet was draped over the window from the inside.
Merchants in nearby businesses had strong opinions about the incident and some appeared startled to hear that an arrest warrant had been issued. Most did not want to comment.
One worker from a nearby business objected to the arrest warrant, saying she empathized with Gwin but disapproved of his actions in the video. She was familiar with the unsheltered woman, who shop keepers have said screamed and caused disturbances in the neighborhood.
“He probably just broke,” the worker said. “Because she’s right in front of his place.”
Chris C., a worker at Filson, a nearby clothing store, said he suspects the scene captured in the video showing Gwin spraying the woman is “not an isolated incident,” but an apt representation of San Franciscans’ interactions with the city’s unhoused population.
“I know other businesses in the area have had issues with homelessness,” he said, criticizing the city for “not getting a handle on it.”
He said he had seen the woman “a day or so” after the video surfaced.
She was surrounded by firefighters and paramedics, he said.
Alex Sakiyama, a neighborhood resident who was also familiar with the woman, shrugged upon hearing about the warrant for Gwin, who he said had been “unrepentant” after the hosing before eventually apologizing.
“You shouldn’t spray people with hoses. That seems like common sense,” Sakiyama said.
San Francisco Chronicle staff writer Michael Cabanatuan contributed to this report.
Rachel Swan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: rswan@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @rachelswan
Photos: Lunar New Year rush starts in China | Coronavirus pandemic News
Hairdresser Wang Lidan is making an emotional Lunar New Year journey from Beijing to her hometown in northeastern China – her first such journey in three years – after the government lifted a strict “zero-COVID” policy that kept millions of people at home and sparked protests.
Referred to in China as the Spring Festival, the New Year holiday may be the only time of the year when urban workers return to their hometowns and see the family they have left behind.
The Chinese government expects about 2.1 billion journeys to be made during a 40-day travel period around the celebration as people rush back for the traditional reunion dinner on the eve of the new year. The first day of the Lunar New Year falls on Sunday.
“The restrictions are lifted, which made me relaxed. So I think it’s time to go home,” Wang said before heading into Beijing Train Station for a trip to the Heilongjiang province.
In December, China abruptly dropped near-daily coronavirus testing and QR code monitoring of residents after public frustration boiled over into protests in Shanghai and other cities. This month, it dropped most remaining restrictions, including the demand travellers from overseas go into lengthy and expensive quarantine.
Many local governments had also imposed their own quarantine on travellers coming into their areas, and it was those that Wang said had deterred her from leaving Beijing.
“If there was an outbreak in Beijing, I would have to be quarantined in my hometown. And when I came back to Beijing, I would be quarantined again,” she said.
“I would miss the Spring Festival and delay my return to work if I was quarantined twice. So inconvenient!”
Hu Jinyuan, from the eastern province of Shandong, had managed to return home each year despite the hassles. He says he plans to continue with regular COVID-19 testing and other measures given the high number of cases since the restrictions were lifted.
“I do nucleic acid tests every now and then. When I arrive in my hometown, I will surely do a test as a way of self-protection. Otherwise, I won’t know if I’m infected. If I’m infected, I will just isolate myself at home,” Hu said.
Wang Jingli said he decided to work through the holidays since his company would triple his overtime pay. With the COVID-19 restrictions cancelled, his children and wife will visit him in Beijing from their hometown in Henan province.
“With the reopening, everyone is very happy about the Spring Festival because we can reunite with our families. But because of my work, I would spend my Spring Festival here in Beijing.”
Amazing photos of gorgeously green Comet C/2022 E3 (ZFT) |gallery
(Image credit: John Chumack/GalacticImages.com)
The Comet C/2022 E3 (ZFT) could put on an amazing show for skywatchers January and February 2023, when it could become visible to the unaided eye in the night sky.
Discovered in March 2022 by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the comet is making its first close pass by Earth in 50,000 years and has not been seen since the time of the Neanderthals. Since its discovery, stargazers and astrophotographers have captured amazing images of the gorgeous green comet. Take a look at their images here.
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John Chumack of GalacticImages.com caught the image above from Yellow Springs, Ohio. Chumack writes that the comet “was estimated to be shining around 11.00 magnitude, you can definitely see its tail and the 2.5 arc-min Green Coma.”
The photographer also added that “There are several faint (16th to 17th magnitude) PGC [Principal Galaxies Catalogue] galaxies visible in this image as the comet was moving through Ursa Major.”
If you’re hoping to observe C/2022 E3 (ZTF), our guides for the best telescopes and best binoculars are a great place to start. If you’re looking to snap photos of the night sky, check out our guide on how to photograph the moon, as well our best cameras for astrophotography and best lenses for astrophotography.
Editor’s Note: If you snap the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), and would like to share it with Space.com’s readers, send your photo(s), comments, and your name and location to spacephotos@space.com.
Google Pixel Tablet and speaker dock prototype leaks [Gallery]
In what’s no longer a surprising occurrence for unreleased Google hardware, a leak of the Pixel Tablet and its Charging Speaker Dock has surfaced on Facebook Marketplace.
With the screen on (via ShrimpApplePro on Twitter), we see the tablet-optimized Pixel Launcher homescreen that Google has previously shared and wallpaper that’s in line with the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro’s “Feathers” collection.
Given that device was just set up, per At a Glance, we could be seeing the default app arrangement. Next to the search bar are Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, and Photos, while the last two slots are suggestions, including Messages. The next row up is Camera, Maps, and Play Store at the right.
On the software front, there’s a look at the dual-pane Settings app for large screens. This is a 256GB variant of the Pixel Tablet, while there’s an estimated battery life of just under 16 hours at 70%.
Meanwhile, we get a better look at the Pixel Tablet’s Charging Speaker Dock with this leak, and it’s exactly like the base of the Nest Hub Max with a rectangular power adapter. It could be the exact same 30W unit that comes with Google’s larger Smart Display, while a barrel connector is also used.
There’s a rear shot of the Pixel Tablet attached to the dock where you can somewhat see the USB-C port on the left edge flanked by speaker grills. The screen’s bezels are black and the body is a similarly dark color, though the photos are too blurry to make out.
Back in October, Google said the nano-ceramic coating, which tries to mimic porcelain’s texture, would be available in a range of colors.
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Hunter Biden cozies up to New York Post as he shows off art at Georges Berges Gallery
Hunter Biden was feeling smug as he cozied up to The Post at a Manhattan gallery Thursday night and showed off his pricey artwork.
The scandal-scarred first son threw an arm around a Post reporter outside Georges Berges Gallery in Soho and invited him inside to an exclusive friends and family event ahead of Friday’s opening show featuring his newest paintings.
“Hey buddy, what’s your name? Who are you with?” the president’s son asked the reporter.
The reporter identified himself as a journalist with The Post and the first-son-turned-painter gave him a friendly invite.
“Why don’t you come inside the gallery at 6 and take a look without your phone out?” Biden asked as he threw his arm over the reporter’s shoulder and walked him to the door.
Biden, 52, deflected when asked how much money his father, President Biden, made from his business deals with China and Ukraine.
Thursday’s soft opening featured the younger Biden’s newest work, including abstract paintings on sheet metal depicting florals and a vibrant bird.
“I painted and washed. I painted and washed it off,” Biden told a group of spectators in describing how he created the layers and splotches on a work in his “Haiku” series.
Biden declined to describe his pieces to The Post and instead inquired about the reporter and shook his hand — asking him to remember that he has a family when the paper writes about the first son.
His past art has ranged in price from $75,000 for works on paper to half a million bucks for his large paintings, his art dealer Berges previously said.
Biden’s art career has elicited concerns in the past as ethics experts warned that the sales are vulnerable to issues involving people seeking to influence President Biden’s administration.
Art critics, however, have praised Biden’s work, though some said the pieces wouldn’t bring in the same price tag if it weren’t for the name attached to them.
His turn toward visual arts comes after he was marred by allegedly corrupt dealings with countries like China and Ukraine as well as a drug addiction scandal.
Documents leaked from Biden’s laptop suggested his father was due a 10% cut from a business deal involving a Chinese state-linked energy company that reportedly paid Joe’s brother James Biden $4.8 million in 2017 and 2018.
President Biden has denied even discussing his son’s business dealings and said he never took any payouts from them — despite reports that he has interacted with his family’s associates from China, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Russia and Ukraine.
Need a Wallpaper? Check Out NASA’s James Webb Photo Gallery
NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope in December 2021, giving scientists a fresh look at the universe and giving the rest of us some cool wallpapers. Thankfully, there’s an easy way to check out the latest images and save them for your device’s wallpaper.
Processed images from the James Web Space Telescope have been published on Twitter, the telescope’s official website, and other locations, but there’s another portal you may not have seen. NASA operates a Flickr profile for the telescope, which contains images of engineering tests, control centers, and best of all, space pictures.
You can browse through the whole collection in your browser, and saving the full-resolution version of an image is as easy as clicking the download button (the arrow pointing down). If you have a Flickr account, you can also follow the account to see new pictures. Flickr provides an RSS feed as well that you can subscribe to with your RSS app of choice, like Feedly or Inoreader.
The first few photos from the James Webb Space Telescope were already excellent wallpapers, but the Flickr gallery is being updated with the latest images. There’s a composite of the Pillars of Creation, two galaxies merging, Jupiter in infrared, and a fiery hourglass.
If the 32-year run (and counting) of the Hubble Space Telescope is any indication, the James Webb telescope should continue giving us fantastic images for years to come.
Fossil fuel protesters charged after tomato soup thrown on Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London gallery
Two anti-fossil fuel protesters who were filmed throwing tomato soup on Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in a London gallery Friday have been charged with criminal damage offenses.
The two young women from the campaign group Just Stop Oil threw the contents of two tins of Heinz tomato soup over the painting, which, the group said, has an estimated value of $84.2 million.
In this image released by the Just Stop Oil organization, two women are seen standing in front of Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” (1888). Credit: from Just Stop Oil
They then glued themselves to the wall beneath the painting at the National Gallery. In a statement posted on Twitter Friday, the gallery confirmed the incident in Room 43, where “Sunflowers” was displayed, and gave an update on its condition.
“There is some minor damage to the frame but the painting is unharmed,” it said. In a subsequent tweet, the gallery explained that the painting was glazed and therefore protected.
A third associate was also charged over a separate attack on the iconic “New Scotland Yard” sign that stands outside London’s main police headquarters, the Metropolitan Police said.
The three people are all associated with Just Stop Oil, which represents a coalition of groups working together to stop the UK government from committing to new licenses concerning the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels.
A total of 28 arrests were made in relation to protests in central London on Friday. The 25 other people have been bailed pending further enquiries, according to the statement.
Friday’s incident is the latest in a series of protests targeting famous works of art in a bid to draw attention to the role of fossil fuels in climate change. In July, members of Just Stop Oil glued themselves to a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” at the Royal Academy of Art in London.
The same month, activists from the group glued themselves to a masterpiece held in the National Gallery, while members of an Italian climate activist organization glued themselves to Botticelli’s “Primavera” in Florence.
School children look at ‘Sunflowers’ (1888) by Vincent van Gogh at Tate Britain in London on March 25, 2019. Credit: Victoria Jones/PA Wire/AP
On Sunday, climate activists from Extinction Rebellion were arrested for gluing themselves to Picasso’s “Massacre in Korea” at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne.
According to a statement, Just Stop Oil timed Friday’s act “to coincide with the planned launch of a new round of oil and gas licensing” in the UK.