A local businesswoman wrote Mission Local saying she heard a couple arguing outside her window at 1:45 a.m. Sunday on 23rd Street between San Jose and Mission Streets
“I was still working on my computer so I was quite awake,” she wrote and asked that her name not be used.
“Don’t push me,” the woman, about 5 foot 4 inches yelled. Her companion, about 6 foot 4 inches “was violently talking to her in a way that I knew he was going to hit her so I called 911.”
“As I am talking to the female 911 operator the guy punches the woman on the face and knocks her down.”
Here is the rest of the reader’s account:
The woman is lying on the ground so I tell the operator they must come now and start yelling “STOP!” out my window.
The women gets up and crosses the street and the guy follows her and stops her again. Finally the police arrived. This was not a movie, it was not a YouTube clip. I saw it out my window and it shocked me.
In a weird way I felt the three of us women, the victim, the female 911 operator and myself were in this together.
Soon after, police arrived to intervene at the corner of 23rd Street near Beretta’s restaurant.
The reader said she was inspired to share the story by an advertisement she saw on domestic violence and she hopes that this moves others to act when they hear screaming outside their windows. We have embedded the advertisement below.
Victims of street violence earlier this fall said that it was important for others who hear arguments going on to call 911. This is a reminder.
This is an ongoing story.