streets of san francisco. this time a former fire commissioner was allegedly attacked by a homeless man with a metal pipe. but the suspect s attorney claims it was the fire commissioner who was the aggressor, after he sprayed the homeless man with bear spray. we re going to go deeper into this story to see what it says about the homeless situation in san francisco. plus, teachers union president, randi weingarten is here after a contentious hearing on capitol hill afbout whether teachers unions stayed closed too long after the pandemic. and steven spielberg said he made a mistake in this rerelease of his classic film et , and he ll never do it again. et phone home? et phone home. okay. we ll talk about that. but we begin tonight with that attack on the streets of san francisco. we warn you, this video is disturbing to watch. prosecutors say former san francisco fire department commissioner was seriously injured after being attacked on april 5th by a suspect with
guy. well, the public defender alleges that there s a pattern of someone with carmen yanny s description spraying and assaulting homeless people. he vehemently denies that. the public defender s office putting out this video from november 2021 we can show you this. this shows an unidentified assailant spraying a sleeping homeless person with bear spray. it s one of eight incidents of someone carrying out an unprovoked attack on homeless people. there have not been any arrests in any of these incidents. we have patrick mcinrow, sc scottings, and jessica washington, senior reporter at the root. so, jessica, i don t know if we should draw a broader message from everything that we just heard and saw there, but it does seem as though the homeless