Video shows Giants CEO Larry Baer pulling his wife south

Giants CEO Larry Baer took his wife out of a chair and knocked him down on a San Francisco square on Friday morning. This incident was filmed by a witness and is under investigation by the city police.

The video shows Baer spanning his wife, Pam, sitting on a chair in Hayes Valley Square before noon. She screams, "Oh my God, no, help me!" While Baer seems to be trying to pick up a phone in his right hand.

She hangs up on the phone, her chair leans over and she falls to his back. Larry Baer and his wife were having coffee and arguing at length, and both were wearing suits.

The 5-second video was provided by a local worker who claimed to have witnessed the incident, but spoke under cover of anonymity. The sequence – with a second video of a duration of 10 seconds – does not indicate clearly what led to the incident. The witness testified that he sold the rights to publish the video to TMZ.

In the second video clip, Pam Baer says, "Oh my God," and Larry Baer, ​​holding a cup of coffee, says, "Pam, stop" before moving away from the square.

Larry Baer said in an interview with The Chronicle: "My wife and I had an unfortunate public dispute related to a family member. She had an injured foot and fell from her chair during the discussion. The problem is solved. It was an argument on a cell phone. Obviously, it's embarrassing. "

Later on Friday, the two men issued a joint statement through the Giants: "Unfortunately, today, we had a heated public debate on a family affair. We are deeply embarrassed by the situation and have solved the problem. "

Major League Baseball, which has a strict domestic violence policy, also issued a statement that the league "is aware of the incident and, like any other such situation, will immediately begin to gather the facts. We will have no further comment until this process is completed. "

Around 1:30 pm On Friday, the San Francisco police arrived at the scene and started questioning witnesses. Nobody called the police, but the officers reacted after The Chronicle published an article on the episode.

Nearby workers described parts of the incident at Proxy, a public square in Octavia and Hayes Streets with coffee and juice shops, a pizza cart, a movie screen and chairs for visitors.

The witnesses, who refused to be identified, said they heard a couple arguing before the incident escalated. Several witnesses said that Baer would get up and start leaving, until the woman said, "Larry, sit down, sit down.

A man who worked at a nearby clothing store said the quarrel was loud and had lasted about 20 minutes long enough that he could not help hearing the details. He said that at one point, Larry Baer had said to his wife, "Let's go to the board today."

The man who shot the video told The Chronicle that the "very emotional conversation" was continuing, attracting more and more attention from passersby.

"They sat down and started arguing," he said. "I'm suspicious. I know this guy from somewhere and another guy said, "It's Larry Baer!"

The incident became physical just after 11:30 am after Pam Baer took Larry Baer's cell phone, said the man who filmed the video.

"He drops it from his chair, overcomes it and puts his hands on it," he said. "She was screaming for help. She seemed rather terrified.

At that time, he said, he put down his phone and interceded with other men.

"As soon as he felt that someone else was catching him, he relaxed and got off," said the witness.

The clothing store worker, who also helped intervene, said that even after the couple's separation, Larry Baer had been trying to get the cell phone. None of the parties punched or attempted to hit each other, witnesses said.

Larry Baer, ​​61, joined the Giants in 1980 as marketing director, then returned after a stint at Harvard Business School and joined the group that bought the team in 1992. He is became president of the team in 2008 and CEO of 2012.

According to a portrait of the couple in Chronicle in 2008, Pam Baer and he met at a birthday party in New York in 1988 and got married two years later. They have four grown children.

Pam Baer is said to be "a very private person" and told The Chronicle in 2008 that her husband "is passionate about life, his work, to make a difference" in society.

The video is the latest controversy in a turbulent season for the Giants' front office. In November, Charles B. Johnson, the main owner of the team, was struggling to explain his political contributions to Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Mississippi GOP senator, who had joked about his willingness to attend meetings. public hangings and an organization that broadcast racist radio ads in Arkansas. .