Posted on 04/26/2023 6:52:10 AM PDT by Morgana
San Francisco's ex-fire commissioner has said the city is 'burning' after the District Attorney dropped charges against a vagrant who repeatedly bashed him in the head with a metal crowbar.
Don Carmignani, 53, was left fighting for his life after being brutally attacked on April 12, when he sprayed pepper spray at the homeless man outside his mother's home in the Marina District.
He suffered a fractured skull and jaw in the attack, and required 51 stitches after Garrett Doty, 24, allegedly beat him over the head with a crowbar.
Carmignani - who served as a fire commissioner in 2013 - claims his lawyers informed him that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has decided not to prosecute Doty because he was acting in 'self-defense'.
According to the injured former fire chief, prosecutors say because he sprayed the homeless man with pepper spray, he instigated the vicious assault.
This is despite chilling footage showing Doty grabbing the crowbar out of the trash and taking practice swings moments before the attack.
Carmignani claims three people 'smoking crack cocaine' leaning up against his mother's door the morning of the attack.
Speaking to CBS News, Carmignani said: 'It's sad. My city is in chaos. They're driving out all the locals and everyone that pays taxes.
'Something needs to change, the city is burning, and now you have the national guard coming in.
'I was just informed by my attorneys prosecuting m for having pepper spray for defense bringing charges against me.
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you would still be calling them a month later. they don’t even show up for a car theft. You file on line.
Yeah, it's changing alright.. Soon it won't be fit for man nor beast...
Thanks George....
Yup, never defecate in your own nest...
Sounds right for San Francisco where they lock up products but not the crooks.
It’s California Jake
I have to work
I don’t believe for one second that San Francisco needs to cheat to keep liberals in power! It was pretty weird in the 1970s! Now?
The movie “The Purge” was only a movie, not an instructional video, you leftist liberal California morons.
Which came first - the spraying or the attack with the crowbar?
Kinda early yet, but still... Post of the day.
Satan grins and laughs as I add one to the list of reasons to stay away from SF. But, in the end, Satan will not win.
I was impressed, however, when the voters kicked out three "woke" school board members and recalled Bodin.
During Bodin's reign, "quality of life crimes" that he wouldn't prosecute included smashing out car windows - there was a HUGE rash of smashed car windows all over the city. A number of cars in my daughter's neighborhood had their windows smashed out - repeatedly - there was glass constantly all over the street and sidewalk. One of her friends, a med student, came out and every window in her car was smashed out - nothing taken, there was nothing in the car. The criminals were smashing out the windows just to do it - often nothing was taken.
My daughter lives in the same neighborhood that London Breed lives in, BTW.
People put up signs in their cars saying "there's nothing in this car!" - still, their windows were smashed out.
No arrests were ever made, I doubt the cops even looked for them.
Ditto for shoplifters that have driven out 17 Walgreens.
San Francisco Target puts entire department on lockdown amid shoplifting crisis
https://nypost.com/2023/04/24/san-francisco-target-puts-entire-inventory-on-lockdown-amid-shoplifting-crisis/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social
So the victim of a crowbar assault is being charged with a crime? Brooke Jenkins did this, even after the citizens kicked out Chesa Boudin?
Victim should DEMAND a jury trial AND sue the D.A’s office & the City of San Francisco for AT LEAST $5 million + legal fees.
Call it reparations.
Daily Mail doesn’t have but really needs really good proof readers and editors. The fact this has gone on for years proves they don’t care.
The police and fire departments need to make it clear to the DA’s office there are consequences for their actions and inactions.
The As are in Oakland …still not a great place
Did you mean jurors? What is an unqualified juror? I get that jury selection means trying to choose jurors strategically, but both the prosecution and the defense to affirm or deny a number of potential jurors during voir dire.
Well he did hit him in the head. Do guberment workers actually suffer any damage in that area?
And public hangings.............
Brooke Jenkins needs to be publically shamed and removed.
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