This horrific attack earlier this month is unfortunately pretty emblematic of life in San Francisco right now:
A bombshell report at the New York Post this week, meanwhile, claimed that the city would not be moving to prosecute the assault:
The district attorney's office dropped the case against Don Carmignani's alleged assailant, Garrett Doty, after deciding the homeless man was acting in "self-defense," sources close to Carmignani told The Post Tuesday night.
Prosecutors heeded Doty's arguments and ruled that the attack was not senseless — they said Carmignani instead instigated the vicious assault after deploying pepper spray on the homeless man, who lived outside his mother's property in the city's affluent Marina District.
Uh huh. Self-defense.
Meanwhile, after getting hit with the crowbar, Carmignani had his jaw wired shut, a steel plate put in his skull, and was forced to use a cane to walk.
If you're homeless, you can beat someone over the head for being "disrespectful" and the woke DA will let you go free unless the public notices!
Well, that report generated such an intense backlash that the city has scrambled to affirm that (it's unreal that this is a real thing I'm about to write) it will reverse the decision to not charge the guy who bashed a former city official's head in with a crowbar:
"We have not dismissed the charges in this case," San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said in a statement.
"Holding violent offenders accountable is a top priority for our office to protect public safety," Jenkins added. "Following the arrest of Garrett Allen Doty, in connection to an assault on Don Carmignani on April 5, 2023, we filed multiple felony charges against Doty and sought to detain him for violent felonies."
"Holding violent offenders accountable is a top priority for our office to protect public safety," says the San Francisco law enforcement officer.
The alleged assailant continues to be in custody, which is really a pretty fair mark of improvement for San Francisco, which these days usually can't get violent offenders back out the revolving door fast enough.
The San Francisco Police Department, meanwhile, claims that Carmignani has not yet spoken to police about the attack, though Carmignani's lawyers claim police have not reached out to him.
The purported offender has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
