San Francisco DA Could Drop Charges in Ex-Fire Commissioner’s Savage Beating
Charges against a homeless man accused of viciously assaulting San Francisco’s former fire commissioner could be dropped after major new allegations emerged, according to reports.
Don Carmignani, 52, suffered a fractured skull when he was attacked with a metal rod outside his mother’s house in the city’s Marina District earlier this month. The violent incident—which came the day after Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death in San Francisco—sparked outrage and was cited by some as an emblematic case of rampant lawlessness in the city.
In the hours before the attack, Carmignani and his mother called 911 to say that three homeless people had set up an encampment outside her home and that they’d made violent threats against her family. Carmignani claimed that when police and homeless service providers failed to respond, he asked the group to leave himself that evening. He alleges one of the group then attacked him.