{"id":26198,"date":"2023-04-28T13:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=26198"},"modified":"2023-04-28T13:03:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:03:03","slug":"public-defender-calls-on-da-to-drop-charges-in-fire-commissioner-assault-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/04\/28\/public-defender-calls-on-da-to-drop-charges-in-fire-commissioner-assault-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Defender calls on DA to drop charges in fire commissioner assault case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Video shows Don Carmignani, who calls homeless people ‘animals,’ firing bear spray at homeless man.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By TIM REDMOND<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

APRIL 26, 2023 (48Hills.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE: <\/strong>Alleged assailant Garrett Doty has been released from jail <\/a>after Don Carmignani failed to show up in court for an hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The San Francisco Public Defender\u2019s Office is calling on the district attorney to drop charges again the man who is accused to attacking a former Fire Commission member in the Marina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos released today show a person the PD\u2019s Office identifies as former Commissioner Don Carmignani using bear spray on a homeless person identified as Garrett Doty, who is in jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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DA Brooke Jenkins says she is going to pursue felony charges. Photo by Ebbe Roe Yovino-Smith<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police allege that Doty assualted Carmignani with a metal pole, sending him to the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bear spray is a much more dangerous form of the type of pepper spray<\/a> designed for police use and self defense. According to one popular brand, it should never be used on humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the PD:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Doty, who is unhoused, was approached by Marina District resident Don Carmignani on April 5. In a video of the April 5 confrontation<\/a>, Carmignani is seen initially approaching Doty with pepper spray in hand. This video is part of the evidence that the prosecution turned over to the Public Defender\u2019s office yesterday. An argument between the two men ensued. A third-party witness told police that she heard Carmignani threaten to stab and kill Doty if he did not leave the area. Doty responded to Mr. Carmignani in self-defense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The evidence turned over by the prosecution includes information on eight separate incidents in which a man in the Cow Hollow and Marina Districts, who fits the physical description of Carmignani, approaches unhoused individuals \u2014 unprovoked \u2014 and sprays them with bear or pepper spray. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The attack made national headlines, and caused more of the usual narratives about how San Francisco has become so horribly dangerous and homeless people are violent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was, of course, the same narrative we heard when Bob Lee was murdered<\/a>. It turns out that the alleged killer knew him and had been arrested in the past on suspicion of domestic violence<\/a>. It\u2019s a political narrative started by the mayor and her allies to go after former DA Chesa Boudin,<\/a> and it\u2019s gotten out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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