Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, was attacked last year; on Friday, the San Francisco Superior Court released audio and video from that incident, including police body-cam footage of the attack and the alleged attacker’s police interview, in which he admitted he intended to hold the then-House speaker hostage.
After a California judge ordered that the district attorney’s office must make the information public, the video and audio recordings were made available.
In one of the films, police officers who came at Pelosi’s house on October 28, 2022, when he was attacked, are shown on body-cam footage. The video captures the commotion of the alleged attacker David DePape’s attack.
Paul Pelosi and DePape can be seen holding the hammer in the graphic and violent footage, and DePape is seen gripping Pelosi’s arm when the cops open the door.
The officer commands, “Drop the hammer.”
“Uh, nope,” says DePape.
Then DePape snatched the hammer from Pelosi’s grasp and charged at him, hitting him in the head. The police broke down the door and tackled DePape before handcuffing him.
The files also contain audio from a police interview with DePape, a 911 call made by Paul Pelosi while DePape was inside the house, and surveillance footage of DePape breaking into the house in addition to the body-cam footage.
The documents were used as exhibits in a court hearing before trial. Following a request by a coalition of news organisations, including CNN, who claimed that the circumstances surrounding the house of the then-Speaker of the House deserved openness, the court decided to order the public release of the papers.
DePape’s attorneys argued that making the audio and video public would “irreparably harm” his right to a fair trial. In relation to a long list of state and federal offences, including assault and attempted murder, DePape has entered a not guilty plea.
Nancy Pelosi claimed she had “absolutely no intention of watching the fatal attempt on my husband’s life” in a brief interview with reporters on Friday afternoon. Paul Pelosi is “making progress, but it will need more time,” she added, adding that she will not be making any other public remarks on the situation.
“I am well aware of what I did.”
Following his arrest in October, DePape was interviewed by a San Francisco police officer, and during the interrogation, DePape acknowledged to assaulting Paul Pelosi and discussed his plans to kidnap Nancy Pelosi.
The 17-minute audio tape begins with DePape saying, “Yeah, I mean, I’m not trying to, like, get away with anything, so, you know, I know exactly what I did.”
DePape stated of Nancy Pelosi, “Well, I was going to essentially take her hostage, and I was going to talk to her. “If she was telling the truth, I would give her a free pass. I was going to crush her kneecaps if she f**ked lied.
In the interview, DePape supported conspiracy theories about Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats, lamenting a “crime spree” by the latter and erroneously asserting that Pelosi and the Democrats had spied on the campaign of former President Donald Trump.
DePape declared, “They are the criminals.”
The policeman described to DePape how he broke into Paul Pelosi’s home and ran into him. DePape compared himself to the Founding Fathers fighting the British when asked why he stayed after Paul Pelosi called the police.
“I walked out of my house to go confront tyranny. I didn’t go out to go give up,” he added.
After the cops arrived, DePape stated why he struck Paul Pelosi while they were both carrying a hammer. DePape said, “He thinks I’ll simply give up, and it’s like, I didn’t come there to give up.” “And I informed him that I would bypass him. I essentially yanked it away from him and struck him as a result.
On the 911 call, Pelosi and DePape chatted.
Pelosi appeared to be gently trying to alert the dispatcher that he was in danger as DePape was listening in on the 911 call recording. Pelosi made the call, according to an earlier CNN story, as he entered his restroom.
“Nancy Pelosi, there’s a man here simply waiting for my wife to return. He is only waiting for her to return, but since she won’t be here for many days, I guess we will have to wait, Pelosi said the dispatcher.
He believes everything is OK. At another point in the 2-minute, 56-second clip, Pelosi remarked, “I’ve got an issue, but he thinks everything’s okay.
When the dispatcher asked Pelosi if he recognised the individual, Pelosi said that he didn’t. He’s urging me to put the phone away and follow his instructions, Pelosi declared.
The operator questioned, “Who is David?”
Pelosi said, “I don’t know.
The call then went to DePape. I’m one of their friends, he added.
He claims to be a buddy. But, as I stated, said Pelosi.
But you don’t recognise him, do you? The dispatcher gave a reply.
No, ma’am, Pelosi said.
The Pelosi residence is broken into by DePape, according to the security footage. A US Capitol Police surveillance camera placed at Pelosi’s San Francisco home caught the incident.
Who is Nancy?
Nancy Pelosi has already stated that the attack on Paul Pelosi had a role in her decision to leave her position as head of the House Democratic Party.
According to court records, DePape reportedly awakened Paul Pelosi at around 2:30 a.m. while carrying a large hammer and a number of white zip ties and said, “Where’s Nancy? Who is Nancy? According to the records, he then deterred Paul Pelosi from using the elevator and threatened to tie him up. He afterwards reportedly heard DePape say, “I can take you out.”
Paul Pelosi underwent surgery after the incident “to treat a skull fracture and major damage to his right arm and hands,” according to a statement from a representative for Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi stated on Thursday that her husband’s rehabilitation was taking place “one day at a time.” She admitted that she wasn’t sure if she would watch the video when it was made public.
