The New York Post reports yet another brutal attack on the streets of San Francisco.
The latest victim is 53-year-old former San Francisco Fire Commissioner Don Carmignani, who was viciously attacked with a crowbar outside his mothers home in the Marina District.
Friends of Carmignani told The Post that as Carmignani was leaving his moms house around 7. pm., a man waving around an industrial metal crowbar attacked the former commissioner.
The man wielding the crowbar was later identified as 24-year-old Garret Doty. The suspect was arrested and booked on assault with a deadly weapon charge.
A friend of Carmignani, Joe Alioto-Veronese, said Carmignani noticed that Doty and two other transients were blocking the driveway to his mothers home. The Post reports Doty bashed the back of Carmignanis head when he was asked to move away from the house.
Alioto-Veronese credited nearby neighbors for saving his friends life when they witnessed the attack and were able to get Carmignani inside the house and call 911.
Carmignanis attack came just one day after an unknown assailants stabbing death of 42-year-old entrepreneur Bob Lee.
Veronese said, Doty was actually seen swinging the pipe and walking around the neighborhood after the attack. Its dangerous here, and the fact that this could happen to a big guy like Don Carmignani, that tells us it could happen to anybody in any neighborhood in San Francisco.
He added, The fact even Paul Pelosi could be attacked in a similar fashion in front of police officers inside his own home shows you that no one is safe in this city."
Veronese blames the lack of police presence on the streets and the soft-on-crime policies the city maintains have led to and continue to contribute to out-of-control drug use and overall lawlessness throughout San Francisco.
Vice President of the San Francisco Police Officers Association, Lt. Tracy McCray, told The Post the department was down by more than 500 police officers.
CBS News reports Carmignanis mother had called the police three times the day of the attack asking for help.
District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani stated, As I pray for Don, his family, and his recovery, I want to be very clear: we cannot tolerate this kind of criminal activity. Not in the Marina, not anywhere. Everyone has the right to feel safe in San Francisco, and that means the city has to stop playing politics with public safety.
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