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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Every city official should walk off the job.
They won’t because they are moronic liberals but they should.
No wonder the Athletics are getting the hell outta Dodge and going inland away from the ocean. That left coast is crazy. Really retarded.
Ok, it’s all making sense now.. (?????)
The repeatedly bashed head of the city’s ex-fire commissioner is an example of why spray is no substitute for a gun.
In a sensible society, there would be pitchforks.
“Carmignani claims three people ‘smoking crack cocaine’ leaning up against his mother’s door the morning of the attack.”
I would not want to try to deal with that situation by myself. I would call the police.
I’ve got no sympathy for anyone who has voted for what goes on there. By this point, that means anyone still living in SF.
They all need to STAY in SF and not move to neighboring states. Build the Wall - on the West side of Arizona!
Enjoy the suck that you have created for yourselves
This is the DA that replaced Chesa Bodin after he was recalled for being 'too soft on crime.'
Suck it up, SF, this is what you continue to vote for.
Meet the new boss....same as...
Good! San Francisco is finally reaping what they have been sowing. I hope they have a bumper crop.
1. Would they come?
2. Would they deal with the issue or just strongly suggest those illegal drug users refrain and then….. wait for it….. write a ticket when the illegal drug users did not stop?
But, but, but . . . DeSantis is wrong to get involved in cultural wars.
NO WAY do I want to be a conscripted unpaid stooge prop for the government's "legal system" which is a cruel sham
classic anarcho-tyranny
In 2020, London Breed announced that “San Francisco officers will stop responding to non-criminal activities such as disputes between neighbors, reports about homeless people and school discipline interventions as part of a police reform plan the mayor announced Thursday.”
> I would not want to try to deal with that situation by myself. I would call the police. <
In a sane city, that would be good advice. But this is San Francisco (see below). This guy should have had a couple of friends with him. The whole ‘strength in numbers’ thing might have deterred the attack.
Way down in the article:
“Carmignani claims that he had to take matters into his own hands after multiple 911 calls from his mother fell on deaf ears.”
“ When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Anarcho-Tyranny.
Pelosi has the power to fix things. One call to the DEA and San Francisco pot shops would soon be closed down.
The California legislature could require each retail alcohol sale in San Francisco be tried into a purchase of food valued at three times as much.
The California legislature could outlaw the sale of tobacco products in San Francisco.
The California legislature could legalize the theft of tents with any city limit and of tarps on tents.
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