Footage shows husband of former House speaker opening door and an intruder as the two wrestle over a hammer.
“There’s too much violence – political violence – too much hatred, too much vitriol,” Biden said shortly after the attack. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor of Virginia, joked at a campaign event that voters would “send [Nancy Pelosi] back to be with him in California”. Last June, a man carrying a gun was arrested outside the home of the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh after threatening to kill him. In court testimony last month, a San Francisco police investigator recounted how DePape claimed there was “evil in Washington” and described his initial plans to kidnap the House speaker. Pelosi, 82, suffered a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm in the attack, requiring him to undergo surgery. But he says “Nope”, then manages to grab it and swing it and, just off camera, hits Pelosi in the head.
A US court authorised the release of video from the October 2020 assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband.
He also sustained injuries to his hands and right arm. Police have previously said Mr DePape told them he was on a "suicide mission" when he smashed in the glass backdoor of the Pelosi home in the upmarket Pacific Heights neighbourhood. The video shows San Francisco police entering Mr Pelosi's home on the night of 28 October, where they see Mr DePape and Mr Pelosi both holding a hammer.
Police body camera footage, along with surveillance video, an interview with the suspect and audio from Mr. Pelosi's 911 call, disproved but could not stop ...
“He’s been out a bit because the doctor said he has to have something to look forward to, and so again, one day at a time,” Ms. At both events, he wore a hat to cover any visible head injury and a dark glove to cover the hand that had been wounded. Pelosi and her family members have been candid about the long road he faces before he can make a full recovery. Pelosi placed while the intruder was in the house and an interview the suspect gave in which he said he was looking for Ms. He also faces federal charges of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and assault on a family member of a federal official. Pelosi, whose speakership ended this month, has been one of the most threatened members of Congress, in part because of a coordinated effort by Republicans to target the most powerful woman in American politics. Also released Friday was Capitol Police surveillance footage of the Pelosi residence that showed the suspect breaking into the home through a back door. In the 911 call, Mr. In a brief, emotional statement to reporters at the Capitol on Friday, Ms. The new evidence underscored the spontaneous nature of the attack. The graphic and harrowing scene unfolds in a roughly 90-second clip of police body camera footage released on Friday by a San Francisco court in the trial of David DePape, the man who has been charged with assaulting Mr. Pelosi as the “leader of the pack” of lying Democrats who spent four years undermining Mr.
Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during a brutal ...
DePape told Hurley he was going after Nancy Pelosi for lying to the American public and that he planned to hold her hostage for her crimes. The officers called for backup as they struggled with DePape and Pelosi was lying on the ground. DePape said he planned to tie Paul Pelosi up so he could get some sleep, because carrying a heavy backpack to the home had tired him out. "They fought the British, they fought the tyranny. Initially, the hammer is in the shadows and it takes about five seconds before a flashlight shows DePape holding the handle of a hammer with his right hand and clutching Pelosi's right hand, which is gripping around the hammer head, with his left hand. Carla Hurley after he was taken into custody, DePape said he didn't regret the attack even though it was not on Nancy Pelosi, his intended target. San Francisco Officer Kolby Wilmes' body-camera video begins with officers approaching the brick home and rapping on the door. Paul Pelosi was asleep at the couple's home when DePape allegedly broke in. One man was convicted this week of eight criminal counts after he put his feet on a desk in Pelosi's office and left a note to her punctuated with a sexist expletive. The Capitol Police video shows DePape walk up to a glass-panel door, leave and then return wearing a large backpack and carrying two other bags. Members of Congress have faced a sharp rise in threats in the two years since the Jan. The release comes after a coalition of news agencies, including The Associated Press, sought access to the evidence that prosecutors played in open court last month.
Evidence from the David DePape case, including a 911 call from the Pelosi home, was obtained by a news coalition.
One of the responding officers testified in December that he saw Paul Pelosi lying face down with a “pool of blood” blooming around his head. Officers were summoned to the house after a call from Paul Pelosi. Officers order the men to drop the hammer, and DePape says “nope” before turning it and swinging at Paul, after which both men topple to the floor and an officer calls for a medic. At the end of the video, DePape can be seen repeatedly swinging the hammer against the exterior of the Pelosi residence and then climbing inside. He planned to kidnap the congresswoman and break her kneecaps if she did not tell him the truth. The body camera footage shows Paul Pelosi and DePape both grasping a hammer when officers arrived at the Pelosi residence in the early morning hours of Oct.
The footage shows Nancy Pelosi's husband being struck by an intruder's hammer as police rushed into their home.
But the traumatic effect on him, this happened in our house, in our home, a crime scene," Pelosi said. At one point, he asked if anyone from the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP), which is charged with protecting Congress and the representatives who serve in it. DePape then appears to tear the hammer fully away from Pelosi, who is in sleep wear, before striking him with a powerful overhand blow. The police body-worn camera footage of the Oct. DePape's ability to get a fair trial."
A graphic video showing the October attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was released Friday by a San Francisco court.
Paul Pelosi asked DePape how the two could “resolve” the situation, he said. DePape said he was so tired from breaking into the house and from carrying a heavy backpack full of supplies, that he just wanted to tie Paul Pelosi up and go to sleep. Paul Pelosi then called 911, with DePape standing next to him the whole time. I’m here for the fight,” he continued. He said the effort caused him to get “pretty winded” at one point. He then walks up to the house and repeatedly swings the hammer. “If she told the truth, I’d let her go scot-free,” he said. “I’m not trying to get away with this,” DePape said. He said that while the right to a fair trial is “certainly a legitimate concern in any case,” the court couldn’t withhold the release of records out of fear that they could be manipulated. In a 17-minute clip of the interview, DePape offered unsparing detail to San Francisco Police Sgt. “I’ve got a problem, but he thinks everything is good.” The evidence the court released is limited to material that was submitted during a December hearing.
A court on Friday released graphic video and audio recordings from the night Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was attacked ...
The officers encounter the two men standing next to each other, each with a hand on a single hammer, police body camera footage shows. The police then call for emergency medical assistance for Pelosi. ... He's telling me to put the phone down." Pelosi then tells the dispatcher, "He thinks everything's good. "Is the Capitol Police around? "There's a gentleman here waiting for my wife to come back, Nancy Pelosi," he calmly tells the dispatcher.
San Francisco Superior Court on Friday released video and audio recorded during last year's attack on Paul Pelosi after a California court ruled the ...
On Thursday, Nancy Pelosi said her husband’s recovery was “one day at a time.” She said she didn’t know if she would see the video when it was released. “He’s telling me to put the phone down and just do what he says,” Pelosi said. Where’s Nancy?” He then threatened to tie up Paul Pelosi and prevented him from escaping via elevator, according to the documents. “Well, I was going to basically hold her hostage, and I was going to talk to her,” DePape said of Nancy Pelosi. The officer walked DePape through his break-in of the Pelosi house and his encounter with Paul Pelosi. Lawyers for DePape argued against the public release of the audio and footage, writing it would “irreparably damage” his right to a fair trial. CNN has previously reported Pelosi made the call when he went into his bathroom, where his cell phone was charging. I did not leave to go surrender,” he said. “And I told him that I would go through him. “There’s a gentleman here just waiting for my wife to come back, Nancy Pelosi. The officers rushed into the home, subduing DePape and handcuffing him. One of the videos shows body-cam footage from officers who arrived at Pelosi’s home on October 28, 2022, when he was attacked.
A judge in San Francisco has released video of the October attack on the husband of then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The video shows the assailant ...
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The man who attacked the husband of Nancy Pelosi in their home last year showed no remorse and continued his dangerous fixation on the former House speaker ...
The video and audio were released by a court Friday, over the objections of DePape’s attorneys who argued it would “irreparably damage” his right to a fair trial. [earlier this month](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/congress-threats-decline-capitol-police/index.html) that threats against members of Congress is “still too high” even though threat investigations dropped in 2022 for the first time in five years. “When Trump came into office, what they did went so far beyond spying on a rival campaign. “Not only were they spying on a rival campaign, they were submitting fake evidence to spy on a rival campaign, covering it up, persecuting the rival campaign,” DePape said of what he believed Democrats were doing to Trump. DePape said that these actions originated with Hillary Clinton, who unsuccessfully ran against Trump in 2016, and that all Democrats are “criminals.” But he zeroed in on Pelosi as the one who “ran with the lying.” DePape also told a San Francisco police officer in October that the reason he went to the Pelosis’ San Francisco home was because he believed that the then-speaker was “the leader of the pack” of all the politicians in Washington, DC, “lying on a consistent basis.”
The man accused of assaulting the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a disturbing surprise phone call to the station on Friday, ...
He also faces federal charges of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and assault on a family member of a federal official. He added that the people “killing” freedom “have names and addresses,” and he sought to “have a heart-to-heart chat about their bad behavior.” DePape said he had been looking for Ms. Lee and a representative for the station could not immediately be reached on Saturday. At the start of the call, which lasted about five minutes, Mr. “DePape said he didn’t want to jeopardize his case.” Pelosi, who at the time was second in line to the presidency. DePape wrested control of it, raised it above his head and slammed it into Mr. It was an extraordinary depiction of a brutal act of political violence, which stemmed from an attempt to abduct Ms. After officers demanded that the hammer be dropped, Mr. 28, they found the assailant and Mr. The body camera footage shows that when officers approached the couple’s San Francisco home in the early hours of Oct.