But when Hathaway took on Doty’s case, she shortly realized another issues about Carmignani. A decade in the past, he had been arrested for home violence involving his then spouse, forcing him to resign from the hearth fee after just some months. (He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault.) So when Hathaway noticed Carmignani demand silence from his girlfriend, she thought, “Yeah, this guy maybe has something to hide.”

Doty pleaded not responsible to felony battery and assault prices. Then, in late April, on the eve of his preliminary listening to, prosecutors despatched Hathaway a brand new batch of proof, together with a steady stretch of footage from the laundromat cam. For the primary time, Hathaway watched Carmignani’s preliminary method to Doty, which occurred 9 minutes earlier than the beginning time of the clip Carmignani’s lawyer had launched.

That outdated clip had begun with Doty plucking a pole from a trash bin. In the brand new footage, Carmignani, carrying a Covid face masks, walks previous a jumble of things on the sidewalk and pulls a tall black canister from his pocket, thumb set off on high. Seconds later, Doty, together with his pink hat, scrambles into the body with a jacket pulled over his head. As they face one another, Carmignani steps towards Doty, who shortly turns his again and strikes away. Carmignani walks after him. There’s no audio, however the physique language is telling: Doty’s on the defensive.

The subsequent shock Hathaway came across within the new batch of proof was a bundle of police stories, detailing eight crimes from the prior yr and a half. On all events, a male suspect had approached homeless individuals on Marina sidewalks and pepper-sprayed them. In the primary case, in November 2021, there was even video proof—from a Ring digital camera, proper on Magnolia Street. When Hathaway performed the clip, she noticed a cumbersome man stride as much as a person mendacity on the sidewalk and spray him for a full 5 seconds, studiously aiming the chemical agent—designed to trigger ache, burning, and momentary blindness—into the sufferer’s face and head as he rolls over and stands up. “I was like what? What?!” Hathaway recollects. “He focuses on the victim’s face. It’s just so gross.”

Hathaway appeared on the 2021 sprayer—sure-footed, cumbersome, Covid face masks, baseball cap. Then she checked out Carmignani as he approached Doty on April 5—sure-footed, cumbersome, face masks, baseball cap. “I was like, Jesus, that’s Carmignani. Like that’s exactly how he walks.” (In the press, Carmignani’s lawyer denied it was him.)

In a few of the different sprayings, witness statements bent towards a roughly related script. A goateed white man in his fifties, using a motorcycle, requested if an unhoused man wanted assist earlier than pepper-spraying, kicking, and punching him. A white man, 6’1″ and a few 220 kilos, with quick, gentle brown hair, carrying a grey beanie, unzipped a person’s tent and maced him with a 10-inch canister, warning, “Get out of my town.” A white male, 40 to 50 years outdated, grayish hair, sprayed Ashley Buck and an unhoused man. In different spray assaults, suspect descriptions skewed youthful: One concerned a white or Hispanic male in his thirties using a grey bicycle. Another was a white thirtysomething male on a skateboard.