Garrett Doty, the 24-year-old homeless man accused of smashing a former San Francisco fire commissioner in the head with a crowbar, was released after the allegedly failed to show up in court.
after he said police ignored his mother’s 911 calls about transients doing drugs and harassing locals outside her home.
Video of the incident shows the ex-fire commissioner walking up to Doty and pulling something from his pocket, prompting Doty to back away and cover his face with his hood. Former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani claims he was assaulted by vagrant Garrett Tody on April 5, but has refused to speak to cops or testify in court about the incident, forcing prosecutors to release Doty from jail.Doty’s public defender claims Carmignani pepper-sprayed her client, who is seen in the footage grabbing a crowbar and going after Carmignani, smashing him and leaving him bloodied.
She added Carmignani is likely reluctant to testify because she could then grill him about the other incidents. “Hopefully, either we have a dismissal at that time because Mr. Carmignani is never gonna come in and never gonna give a statement, or we proceed with a preliminary hearing and I get the opportunity to cross-examine him.”
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