Police video shows hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s husband

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San Francisco police released footage this Friday (27) revealing how the attack was perpetrated against the husband of former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last October. Paul Pelosi was hit on the head with a hammer by a man who broke into his home.

The footage, taken by a camera in the uniform of one of the agents who responded to the incident at the property, was released along with a video from a surveillance camera. Footage shows the assailant, David DePape, 42, breaking a glass window to get into the Pelosis home and the emergency call made by Paul, 82.

Afterwards, two policemen knock on the door of the house. When it opens, Pelosi and DePape are side by side, with the assailant holding a hammer — the deputy’s husband also takes the object with one hand. DePape tells the agents that “everything is fine” and hears one of the officers order him to drop the hammer.

He then snatches the hammer from Pelosi’s hand, dressed in pajamas, and hits him in the upper body. The agents react, entering the house and immobilizing the aggressor.

After being hit, Nancy Pelosi’s husband was taken to the hospital and underwent surgery to treat skull fractures and serious injuries to his hands and right arm. He was discharged six days later.

According to documents produced by the prosecution, he told police he planned to kidnap the lawmaker, interrogate her and break her knees “in case she lied”. Prosecutors called the attack politically motivated.

Then Speaker of the House, at the time of the aggression Pelosi received a series of threats made by Trumpists, who even invaded his office in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. She headed the two impeachment processes that the then president was the target of —he ended up acquitted in the Senate on both occasions.

The perpetrator is a Canadian citizen who has been undocumented in the US for at least 14 years. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had asked for custody of DePape once criminal proceedings against him are completed.

Records show he entered the country as a temporary visitor in March 2008. Eligible Canadians posing as business or leisure tourists generally do not require a visa and are normally admitted for a stay of up to six months in the US.

After the attack, DePape was held without bond and pleaded not guilty to the active charges of kidnapping, assault, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, elder abuse, false imprisonment and threatening a public official. .

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