![]() Courtesy San Francisco Public Defender's Office Carmignani denies it is him in the video. According to Hathaway, the video was recorded on the same street as Carmignani’s residence.Ī still from a November 2021 video shows an unidentified assailant who comes upon a sleeping homeless person on the sidewalk and bear sprays them in the face for several seconds before walking away, according to the public defender's office. “Fortunately, one of them was caught on video.”ĬNN has requested but has not yet received the police reports.Ĭarmignani has denied that he is the person in the videos of the bear spray attacks and says he did not commit any of the attacks.Ī copy of the November 2021 video provided by the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office shows what appears to be a homeless man asleep outside on a sidewalk. “In all of them, the victims are not housed, the victims are either asleep in their tents, sitting on a bench, minding their own business,” Hathaway said, citing police reports regarding eight separate attacks on homeless people that were included in the discovery evidence she received. The video does not show the moments before the altercation.Ī separate video, also provided by Carmignani’s attorney and which appears to be taken from a nearby building, shows the former city official running down the street with Doty close on his heels, swinging the rod at Carmignani’s head as he flees.ĭoty’s public defender told reporters Wednesday this case is one of self-defense, in part because she says there appears to be a repeated pattern of someone with Carmignani’s description allegedly attacking homeless people with bear spray in a four block span of his home between November 2021 and January 2023, based on police reports given to her by the DA’s office and police. Video taken from outside a gas station – shared by Camignani’s attorney – appears to show the former fire official attempting to defend himself while being struck by a man wielding a metal pole. Other homeless victims, public defender says The district attorney says the SFPD has made multiple requests for an interview. “The incident culminated with one of the individuals producing a piece of metal pipe and striking me several times on the head.”Ĭarmignani was hospitalized and underwent emergency surgery, his statement said.Ĭarmignani’s attorney Samuel Ray said in a statement that the San Francisco Police Department did not respond to the morning call about the people camped in front of his client’s home, and that “no one from SFPD or the DA’s office ever interviewed, or attempted to interview Don about his version of events.”ĬNN has asked SFPD about Ray’s allegation. ![]() “That evening, I arrived at my Mother’s house and asked these individuals to leave,” Carmignani said in the statement. On April 5, Carmignani called 911 to report three homeless people in an encampment outside his mother’s home in the city’s affluent Marina neighborhood, he told CNN in a statement. ![]() Hathaway also released surveillance video that she said showed Carmignani attacking Doty with bear spray minutes before Carmignani was attacked with the metal pipe. Kleigh Hathaway, Doty’s public defender, claims her client was not the aggressor in the incident but rather was protecting himself from the former fire official, who she says has targeted several homeless people with bear spray, including Doty. The judge overseeing the case granted the prosecution’s request to postpone the hearing until May 23 and released the suspect, Garret Doty, who San Francisco police booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, from jail. Carmignani was unable to testify in Thursday’s preliminary hearing as a result, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors say former San Francisco Fire Department Commissioner Don Carmignani sustained serious injuries after being attacked in early April by a suspect with a metal pipe outside of his mother’s home in San Francisco. The suspect accused of using a metal pipe to attack a former San Francisco fire department official was released from custody Thursday and is to appear in court for a preliminary hearing in late May.
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