Posted on 12/22/2023 4:59:42 PM PST by grundle
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Francisco jury on Friday found a homeless man not guilty after being accused of using a metal pipe to beat a businessman who suffered a broken jaw, fractured skull and traumatic brain injury in an attack caught on video that fueled debate about crime and homelessness in the city.
Garret Doty, 25, was charged with three assault and battery charges for the April 5 beating of Don Carmignani. Doty pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors said Doty beat Carmignani in an act of revenge. But Doty’s defense attorneys said he was acting in self-defense after Carmignani sprayed him with bear spray.
The attack on Carmignani, a businessman who served briefly on a Fire Department commission, happened two days after the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee.
A confrontation between Carmignani and Doty started after Doty and two others set up tents outside the home of Carmignani’s parents, who live next door to him in the upscale Marina District. Carmignani said in an interview with KPIX-TV that he had asked Doty to move away because they were blocking his parent's entryway.
He said he called 911 but no one responded, so he went out to talk to the homeless people. and that the only thing he had on him was pepper spray.
“I didn’t go out there to fight anyone. I’m trying to get them down the road, go to the park,” Carmignani told the television station.
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Why do people still visit San Francisco.
Guilty people are innocent.
Innocent people are guilty.
It’s the new normal.
You could not pay me enough to visit San Fransicko.
Heck, I don’t even go into Californistan.
I refuse to even violate it’s airspace.
They like to play hop scotch around the sidewalk turds?
Diogenes would walk with his lantern in hand a long time to find an honest-—or good——human in San Francisco.
Good line: When asked what wine he found most pleasant to drink, Diogenes replied, “That for which other people pay.”
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/hetairai/diogenes.html
Jury nullification.
I want to hear NO COMPLAINTS from any San Fransiscan.
They bought it, they pay for it.
1984
George Orwell
Millions of morons believe it.
Millions of morons are working hard to make Orwell's nightmare a reality--in the USA!
Agree. Stay out of California.
As much as the Mafia was full of vile, murderous cretins, they kept certain parts of Brooklyn clean and safe.
You didn’t mess around near their grandparents, parents, or children.
They did not dial 9-11.
As John Lennon sang, “Free the prisoners, jail the guards”.
I’ll bet that a double-sawbuck to one of the perp’s “friends” could solve this problem in a jiffy.
Where’s Paul Kersey when you need him?
Well it looks like he is going to have a home for a lot of years now.
Does that apply to Jim Robinson?
until a prisoner shot him dead.
Where’s the Magnum Force when you need them?
“ But Doty’s defense attorneys said he was acting in self-defense after Carmignani sprayed him with bear spray.”
Big mistake. Sprayed him with bear spray. Should have sprayed him with .40 cal hollow point
New tagline time.
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