San Francisco prosecutors are refusing to release police body camera and surveillance footage from the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul during the attack on Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi’s husband. last week.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, a Democrat who defeated DA Chesa Boudin in a recall earlier this year, declined to release details beyond what was already in court documents, including video of the attack.
‘Mister. Pelosi opened the door, they were both holding a hammer, and police observed Mr. DePape remove that hammer and then hit Mr. Pelosi,” Jenkins said Thursday. That’s the most we’re going to say at this point. Our job is not to discuss this case in public or in the press. It’s to prove it in court.
DePape did not appear at a hearing on Friday, according to Fox News.
Pelosi returned home Thursday after being released from the hospital, the same San Francisco residence where she was attacked by a hammer-wielding man and suffered a fractured skull six days earlier.
San Francisco prosecutors are refusing to release police body camera and surveillance footage from the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who defeated District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a recall earlier this year, declined to reveal details beyond what was already in court documents.
DePape did not appear at a hearing on Friday, according to Fox News
Pelosi was taken in for treatment after DePape allegedly broke into her San Francisco home with a hammer and hit him.
“The Pelosi family is grateful for the beautiful outpouring of love, support and prayers from around the world,” Pelosi’s office said in a statement.
“Paul is grateful to the 911 operator, emergency services, trauma care team, ICU staff and all ZSFGH medical staff for the excellent and compassionate life-saving treatment he received after the violent incident. assault on our home,” the statement said. Paul remains under the care of doctors as he continues to progress through a long process of recovery and convalescence. He is now at home surrounded by his family who requests privacy.
Doctors operated on Pelosi, a successful investor, to treat a skull fracture she suffered while fighting her attacker.
The low-key reporting of the incident comes as NBC News took out a bombshell report claiming that Paul Pelosi failed to tell responding police officers that he was in danger just before he was injured in a hammer attack at his San Francisco home last week. pass.
Secret Service agents photographed outside Pelosi’s home on Thursday.
Paul Pelosi, 82, was rushed in for treatment after David DePape allegedly broke his San Francisco hammer and hit him.
“The Pelosi family is grateful for the beautiful outpouring of love, support and prayers from around the world,” Pelosi’s office said in a statement.
Pelosi was released from the hospital six days after suffering a fractured skull when she was attacked with a hammer, according to multiple reports.
The clip released by the news outlet Friday morning cites sources close to the investigation as saying Pelosi’s husband did not declare an emergency or say he was in distress when police showed up at his door in response to his 911 call.
The report by Emmy Award-winning journalist Miguel Almaguer states that the 82-year-old man walked a few feet away from the officers and walked into the hallway toward DePape, who had earlier broken into the house armed with a hammer.
As Pelosi reportedly walked away from responding officers and toward DePape, they saw him hit Pelosi with the hammer, according to the report.
The NBC News report also stated that it was unclear what Pelosi’s state of mind was when she reportedly walked away from police and that responding officers apparently did not know it was the home of Nancy Pelosi, who has a task force. security and was in Washington. DC at the time of the attack.
The report, which differs from court documents filed earlier this week, was released Friday morning.
The incident, just days before the November election, has renewed calls in Congress to beef up security in light of mounting threats against lawmakers.
Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat second in line for the presidency, was in Washington at the time.
US Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said in a weekend memo to lawmakers that the attack “is a grim reminder of the threats facing elected officials and families in 2022.” .
In a speech on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden linked the attack to political violence unleashed by supporters of former President Donald Trump against Congress on January 6, 2021.
Republicans, he said, have “emboldened violence and intimidation of voters and election officials.”
“That’s the path to chaos in America,” he said.
