California homeless man found not guilty in attack with pipe on former San Francisco fire commissioner
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A California jury on Friday found a homeless man not guilty of beating a former San Francisco fire commissioner with a metal pipe in a brutal attack in April.
Garret Doty, the now 25-year-old homeless man who was accused of beating 54-year-old Donald Carmignani repeatedly over the head with a metal pipe on April 5, faced two counts of assault and one count of battery. San Francisco Democrat policies have put residents under constant threat from street dwellers. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.
Deputy Public Defender Kleigh Hathaway argued that Doty acted out of "fear for his life and fought back to protect himself." She is a native of Massachusetts and is based in Orlando, Florida.
In a press release, the San Francisco Public Defender's Office said that Carmignani's attorneys previously shared only "select video footage" from the incident-leaving out how the altercation began. Story tips and ideas can be sent to sarah.rumpf@fox.com and on X: @s_rumpfwhitten.