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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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What’s the difference between the Mafia and the government?
1. The Mafia only wants 10%.
2. The Mafia doesn’t spend 15 years forcibly teaching your children that its actions are ethical.
3. When you pay for protection from the Mafia, YOU ACTUALLY GET PROTECTED.
This was in front of his parents yard. Your response seems obtuse.
What brand of pepper spray was that?
I don’t want to buy it.
Vigilante committees wil be active in California within 10 years.
I last went to go to the library. They had a book I wanted to read.
This is what happens when you bring bear spray to a pipe fight...
I’d like to see the makeup of the jury of “peers”.
Congresswoman Pelosi:
Please have the DEA enforce federal marijuana law in San Francisco.
Please allow San Francisco to impose work requirements for welfare.
SF Voter
Dear California Legislator:
Please make intoxicating beverages & tobacco products in San Francisco the most expensive in the nation by far.
Try pitching a tent in front of the Pelosi mansion.
I haven’t been to California for 13 years, but I always enjoyed my stays there.
Pepper spray doesn’t work on bears, or humans, that are intent to kill you.
its like a ref not calling fouls on thug behavior in a basketball game.....its going to lead to increased violence...
OH...San Francisco..
OKAY.
Regards,
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