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Video: S.F. Target security guard took cash from man, Tased and beat him

After Mission Local reported on a Target security guard beating San Francisco resident Shan Bowerman with a baton last week, additional onlooker video reveals what precipitated that beating: The guard, holding a Taser to Bowerman’s chest, forcibly took his money while he protested loudly. The guard Tases Bowerman in the video, takes the money — a few hundred dollars of a welfare payment by Bowerman’s reckoning — then strikes him in the face with the Taser. No one was arrested in the incident, but Bowerman was treated in an ambulance. The new footage obtained by Mission Local today corroborates Bowerman’s claims last week that the security guard had intervened in a dispute he had with his girlfriend, forcibly took the money from him, Tased him and then handed the wad of bills to Bowerman’s purported girlfriend. The video could lead to assault charges against […]

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Target security guard in downtown S.F. beats man repeatedly with baton

A private security guard working for the Metreon Target store struck a San Francisco man at least 10 times with a baton on Friday evening, after the man punched him in the face for allegedly taking his money. Before the punch and subsequent beating, Shan Bowerman, 56, said the guard forcibly took his cash from his pocket and used a stun gun on him twice.Bowerman said the guard took his money after siding with Bowerman’s girlfriend in a dispute over money: The girlfriend tried to take Bowerman’s cash and said it was hers; Bowerman said the money was his and she was stealing it.Part of the incident was captured on video, on the crowded street corner at Mission and Fourth streets.  Just before 6:30 p.m., Bowerman was following two security guards in International Protective Service, Inc. uniforms from the northwest corner […]

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