San Fran drops charges against crowbar attacker
Jazz Shaw 9:21 AM on April 26, 2023
Earlier this month, former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani was attacked by a homeless person with a crowbar. The attacker, Garrett Doty, was one of a group of vagrants who had been blocking Carmignani’s mother’s driveway and acting in a threatening fashion. The attack sent the former fire chief to the hospital for emergency surgery with a hole in the back of his skull. He also had a broken jaw and required fifty stitches. This looked like a fairly open-and-shut case, but last night the San Fran District Attorney’s office suddenly dropped the charges against Doty and dismissed the case. How is this happening in a major American city? (NY Post)
San Francisco prosecutors have decided not to charge the transient accused of repeatedly bashing the city’s former fire commissioner in the skull with a crowbar — even after obtaining video of the man taking practice swings moments before the attack.
The District Attorney’s Office dropped the case against Don Carmignani’s alleged assailant Garrett Doty after deciding the homeless man was acting in “self-defense,” sources close to Carmignani told The Post Tuesday night.
Prosecutors heeded Doty’s arguments and ruled that the attack was not senseless — they said Carmignani instead instigated the vicious assault after deploying pepper spray on the homeless man who lived outside his mother’s property in the city’s affluent Marina District.
This is incredible. It’s not as if this was some sort of he said, he said situation. The entire incident was caught on security camera video. Doty was seen fishing the crowbar out of a trash can and taking practice swings with it before he was even approached.
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