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San Francisco Drops Case against Homeless Man Who Beat Former City Official with a Crowbar
National Review via Yahoo ^ | April 26, 2023 | Brittany Bernstein

Posted on 04/26/2023 11:21:58 AM PDT by grundle

The San Francisco district attorney’s office on Tuesday dropped the charges against a homeless man who allegedly attacked former San Francisco fire commissioner Don Carmignani earlier this month with a crowbar, sending him to the hospital for emergency surgery to treat a hole in the back of his skull.

The case was dropped after prosecutors concluded the attacker, Garrett Doty, was acting in self-defense when he beat Carmignani so badly that he broke the former fire commissioner’s jaw and left him in need of 50 stitches

The incident began when Carmignani confronted Doty and two other vagrants who were allegedly blocking Carmignani’s mother’s driveway in the city’s Marina District while consuming drugs and harassing neighbors. His mother’s calls to 911 had gone unanswered.

During the confrontation, the trio refused to leave and Doty allegedly became aggressive. Carmignani then deployed pepper spray on Doty.

Because Carmignani sprayed Doty, the district attorney’s office has concluded the homeless man was acting in self-defense when he viciously attacked Carmignani, despite prosecutors having obtained video of the attacker taking the crowbar out of a garbage can and taking practice swings before the attack.

Video appears to show Doty cornering Carmignani, who was heavily bleeding, against the wall of a gas station store while brandishing a crowbar. Carmignani tried to fight back, but Doty struck him in the head with the crowbar when Carmignani went to wipe blood from his eyes.

Carmignani attempted to escape toward the road but Doty hit him in the head again and then chased him down the sidewalk, according to the report.

The attack left Carmignani in the ICU for several days.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; assault; california; californication; crime; deathofthewest; dystopia; sanfrancisco; sanfransicko; selfdefense; sss
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San Francisco has a really messed up definition of "self defense." In the real world, the person acting in self defense was the one who used the pepper spray, not the one who used the crow bar. San Francisco has this completely backwards.
1 posted on 04/26/2023 11:21:58 AM PDT by grundle
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How dare that ex-commish try to damage that man’s crowbar with his head!...............


2 posted on 04/26/2023 11:23:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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What’s next? Dropping charges against Paul Pelosi’s BF; David Depape?


3 posted on 04/26/2023 11:24:44 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Donald Trump is a setting sun. Ron DeSantis is a rising star.)
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To: grundle

More here:

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4 posted on 04/26/2023 11:25:12 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: grundle

There is nothing San Fran needs more than the Big One and a tsunami afterward.


5 posted on 04/26/2023 11:30:51 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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To me, if the police won’t respond to the scene, you should be within your rights to place them under citizens arrest. People need to train how to cuff and restrain, and how to use less than deadly force with a gun as a backup.This is the Wild West again, and the town ain’t got a Sheriff. It is time to make a citizens posse and settle these criminals down. Put them on a train out of town, with broken teeth if necessary.


6 posted on 04/26/2023 11:33:15 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (Repent, turn back to your first Love. If you do well you will be blessed, if not...America 2023)
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Just think the recalled the last DA for being to soft on crime and this is what took over.

I would say the city did not “mess up”, they are deliberately being soft on crime because in their warped mind it is the best way to deal with the issue.


7 posted on 04/26/2023 11:34:45 AM PDT by srmanuel
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Get out of SAN FRAN NOW! Abandon all hope those who enter!


8 posted on 04/26/2023 11:35:22 AM PDT by Kartographer (“We Mutually Pledge To Each Other Our Lives, Our Fortunes And Our Sacred Honor”)
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San-Francisco-cell-phone

The city of SF is dying.

9 posted on 04/26/2023 11:35:56 AM PDT by PGR88
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Video appears to show Doty cornering Carmignani

Nothing says "self-defense" like the "victim" cornering the "attacker", after the "victim" warms up a bit with the weapon...

10 posted on 04/26/2023 11:37:50 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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Anarcho-tyranny.

Punish the innocent. Reward the guilty.


11 posted on 04/26/2023 11:44:57 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Clearly the bum was merely petitioning the government for redress of grievances.


12 posted on 04/26/2023 11:46:56 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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A citizen’s posse sound like a good idea for every town or city. Perhaps made up of former Marines.


13 posted on 04/26/2023 11:50:16 AM PDT by WVNan
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“ A citizen’s posse sound like a good idea for every town or city. Perhaps made up of former Marines. “

Maybe a “Courtesy Patrol. I’m thinking “Office Linebacker” from YouTube.

14 posted on 04/26/2023 12:04:00 PM PDT by Jumpmaster (U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
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To: grundle

The days and lives of libtards.


15 posted on 04/26/2023 12:05:29 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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If the tables were turned, the fire commissioner would in no wise get out.


16 posted on 04/26/2023 12:11:15 PM PDT by WKTimpco
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No, you’re wrong. They DO have a Sheriff.

And that’s EXACTLY how it was handled before Police departments came along.

It’s actually illegal to refuse a summons or whatever it’s called, when an escaped felon or whatever was on the run, the Sheriff would deputize however many citizens were needed.

It is certainly something that needs to be looked at as everything starts to fall apart due to malfeasance in other areas of local government, the Sheriff is an elected position, and is ordinarily one of the, if not THE most powerful official in the county.


17 posted on 04/26/2023 12:31:11 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: grundle

He just wanted to sit in your mother’s driveway, consume a few drugs, insult a few of your mother’s neighbors and not bother nobody.


18 posted on 04/26/2023 12:58:38 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: grundle

Anarcho-tyranny.


19 posted on 04/26/2023 3:24:08 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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Druggies don’t have the right to self defense?


20 posted on 04/26/2023 3:40:47 PM PDT by Fuzz (. )
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