At the end of the hearing in July, Judge Linda Colfax spoke from the bench. The video belied what Carmignani claimed happened when he first approached, she said—the purported weapon in Doty’s hand, the circling face-off—and she didn’t believe Carmignani set off the pepper spray accidentally. One exasperated 70-year-old who described herself as third-generation Italian San Franciscan emphasized to me, …
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