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An unhoused individual was reportedly caught publicly masturbating on a bench near the Big City Bagels by Lamden Hall last Thursday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to the University Police Department, officers responded to a report of a \u201cmale with his hand inside his pants,\u201d and proceeded to transport the suspect for a mental health evaluation after their assessment of the scene. While UPD personnel stated that they did not personally observe the individual actively engaged in any sexual activity, BCB employees described a more detailed unfolding of what occurred prior to police intervention.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was just a guy when we came to open, and he was resting and sleeping,\u201d Zara Huntington, a third-year SDSU student who was on shift at the time, said. \u201cThen he woke up and he looked around and rubbed his eyes\u2026I was going to go bring him a muffin and some water because he looked a little rough.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was then that Huntington said she witnessed the man begin openly masturbating. She called campus police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thursday\u2019s incident contributes to a larger trend of reports of unhoused individuals performing acts of sexual self-gratification in SDSU spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the second week in a row I have seen a dude [masturbating] on campus and had to call campus police,\u201d Huntington said. \u201cLast week at the Turtle Pond, this guy was lying there, and then he took off his shirt, and then he unbuttoned his pants.\u201d<\/p>\n
When officers arrived at the Turtle Pond on Sept. 15, the individual denied allegations of any lewd conduct and complied when advised to leave campus, according to the UPD. <\/p>\n
A similar incident occurred a few days later when a staff member reported witnessing an unhoused individual masturbating in Parking Structure 1, UPD said. The department said officers responded within minutes, but they were unable to locate the suspect and are continuing to investigate the case. <\/p>\n
The UPD confirmed that the three events involved separate unhoused individuals all of whom are not affiliated with SDSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An unhoused individual was reportedly caught publicly masturbating on a bench near the Big City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-479197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}