People say the same thing about Portland. To a certain demographic, a couple of blocks apparently represents entirely what a city is. It's kind of nice in a way, because it keeps those certain demographics away from my beautiful city.

Well, it’s both. Such is the case with most components of most hard problems.

The (former) fire chief Carmignani allegedly, probably, bear maced homeless previous previously. That is a separate crime. But the day the assault happened, April 5th, there's no evidence that the homeless man, Doty, was bear maced. The video footage shows Carmignani confronting Doty, Doty putting up his blanket like he thinks Carmignani is going to bear mace him (maybe he did in the past), and Carmignani confronting Doty as Doty is backing up out of the street. Then we have footage of Doty cornering Carmignani with a crowbar (not self defense), and then running and chasing after Carmignani hitting him with a crowbar (not self defense). There is a high chance that Carmignani could've died from being crowbar'd to the head.

“Fought back in self-defense”

Ah okay, so you’re just going to blatantly lie about what happened?

We know what he meant. Just 10 years ago SF, Seattle, and Vancouver were my favorite cities and all 3 have undergone very unfortunate changes.