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Warren appears to have trouble standing and walking. Chu begins pushing him toward the exit. On his way off the bus, Warren, who has a slurred speech impediment, slowly mumbles over his shoulder to Chu, “Don’t touch me. I could beat your ass.”



Chu becomes enraged, yells “Dude, fucking what did you say?” and shoves and kicks Warren off the bus, where the homeless man staggers in the street.



San Francisco police are in trouble again. A new video surfaced today showing Officer Raymond Chu beating a homeless man with his baton and then blasting him with a shot of pepper spray.Here's what happened, according to Public Defender Jeff Adachi:On Feb. 11, at about 11 p.m., the 5-Fulton bus reached the end of the line at Cabrillo and La Playa streets at Ocean Beach. In the back of the bus, was 36-year-old Bernard Warren, a homeless man who had been sleeping when the coach came to a stop. The Muni driver, unable to wake Warren from his slumber, contacted SFPD who sent Chu to the scene. The video shows that Chu tried to rouse Warren for some 30 seconds before he finally awoke, disheveled and disoriented. Per the Public Defender:As Warren walks away, Chu pulled out his police baton, yelling “We done here? We done here? Yeah, keep walking.”Chu then went after Warren and hit him with the baton. (see video below)In his police report, Chu claimed that Warren approached him with clenched fists. Chu wrote in that same report that he hit Warren in the legs five times with a baton before deploying his pepper spray, according to Adachi. “The baton strikes were again ineffective, and Warren was attempting to flee from the scene. I then used my department issued (pepper spray) and administered a 3 second burst to Warren’s eye area,” Chu wrote in his report made available via the Public Defender's Office.Warren, who suffered serious bruising to his legs and pain in his eyes and face, was arrested on suspicion of threatening an executive officer. He spent two weeks in jail and was released. A jury trial is scheduled for March 6. He faces up to a year in jail if convicted.“It was clear Mr. Warren could not have carried out any sort of threat. Yet he was incarcerated for over two weeks, at a cost to taxpayers of $150 a day. Now we are dealing with costly court hearings and investigations and legal filings. It is a tremendous waste of resources because an officer lost his temper,” Adachi said.Officer Albie Esparza says the SFPD just now got word of the video and officers will release a statement shortly.This is the most recent video that's surfaced showing questionable police force. Back in January, officers were caught on surveillance camera in what appeared to be an attempt to push a man in a wheelchair off of a curb . SFPD confirmed that the case was being investigated by Internal Affairs.San Francisco Public Defender Chief Attorney Matt Gonzalez said the latest video, coupled with the January wheelchair incident, show that police are in urgent need of training.“Both videos show a reckless and unnecessary escalation of force. In Mr. Warren’s case, there was no justification for the use of a baton or pepper spray. Officers must be trained to diffuse conflicts rather than intensify them. We should not expect these routine encounters to end in bruises and burns,” Gonzalez said.