Police say a teenage pedestrian got into an argument with a woman in a vehicle. The teen deployed bear mace, striking one of two children inside the vehicle.
commissioner is being accused of provoking the attack. the public defender calls it a case of self-defense and wants all the charges against her client to be dropped. 24-year-old garrett dodi faces a number of felony counts of battery and assault from that april 5th attack. surveillance video released by them shows dodi swinging a metal pipe leaving the man with a fractured skull and other serious injuries. he said he was attacked after dodi and other homeless people camped near his mother s how to leave. yesterday the public defender released this video claiming the man had sprayed her client with bear mace as well as this video from 2021 which shows him dousing a homeless person with bear spray. the public defender says she believes the man could be responsible for at least eight
today s preliminary hearing, and without the testimony from the complaining witness prosecutors could not move forward with the case. now, despite surveillance video showing 24-year-old garrett dotey chasing him down the street and hitting him multiple times in the head with a metal pipe, the judge had no choice but to release the assailant on his own recognizance. prosecutors said the man was physically unable to come to court, on pain meds and suffering from a broken jaw. his failure to show follows interviews with local media and new video tape released by the public defender s office that claims to show evidence of dotey defending himself. dotey s lawyers say he sprayed her client with bear mace and may be similar with eight bear
In one incident early Saturday, police made a gunpoint arrest of two individuals in a vehicle following reports two pedestrians had been sprayed with bear mace.