Don Carmignani’s neighbors remarked, “No one is safe” in the city after a homeless guy severely beat him with a metal club outside his family’s front door.
On Wednesday, Carmignani was assaulted, only one day after Cash App co-founder Bob Lee was fatally murdered in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Carmignani, 53, was struck with an industrial metal crowbar as he left his mother’s house in the Marina District around 7 p.m., according to friends who spoke to The Post.
The 24-year-old suspect, Garret Doty, was subsequently arrested by San Francisco law enforcement and booked on suspicion of assault involving a weapon.
According to Joe Alioto-Veronese, a famous lawyer and Carmignani’s friend, Doty and two other homeless persons were blocking the road as Carmignani went to see his mother.
The ex-smoke eater’s skull and jaw were broken when Carmignani ordered them to move and Doty struck him in the back of the head.
After the incident, “[Doty] was seen walking around the neighborhood swinging the pipe,” as reported by Alioto-Veronese. Anywhere in San Francisco, anything might happen, if it could happen to a prominent guy like Don Carmignani.
He went on to say that “no one is safe in this city” because “Paul Pelosi could be attacked in the same way in his own home in front of police officers.”
In their Pacific Heights house (about a mile from Carmignani’s block), on October 28th, David DePape struck Paul Pelosi in the head with a hammer. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s spouse is named Paul.
People in San Francisco have spoken out against the recent increase in violent crime, saying they are sick of “living in fear.”
San Francisco’s murder rate increased by 36.6% between 2019 and 2022, from 41 to 56 in a population of 815,000 people, despite a 13.6% overall decrease in severe crime.
There has been a threefold increase in property crimes and a sevenfold increase in violent crimes in San Francisco during the past three years.
According to Alioto-Veronese, when Carmignani’s companions witnessed him being hurt, they dragged him inside and called the police.
Attorney emphasized that “they saved his life.”
On Friday, the former fire commissioner remained in the intensive care unit (ICU). On Thursday, he had surgery. Alioto-Veronese believes he will need future surgical procedures.
The lawyer claims that the city of San Francisco’s lenient position on crime has contributed to the growth of anarchy and drug use throughout the city.
Lt. Tracy McCray, vice president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, told The Post that the department has lost more than 500 officers due to resignations.
The city is in tremendous anarchy because we will continue to spiral in this doom cycle,” Alioto-Veronese, a candidate for district attorney, said. The Bay Area is losing tech moguls like Bob Lee, who are relocating their companies elsewhere. After the city was bombed, not even [Lee] stayed; he was only a guest.
More than just filing charges is at stake here. The purpose here is to avert a mental health crisis. The psychiatric ward of San Francisco General Hospital “should not be out in the community.”