Prosecutors in San Francisco refuse to release police bodycam and surveillance footage of the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul during the attack on the congresswoman’s husband last week.
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins — a Democrat who “awakened” District Attorney Chesa Boudin in a recall earlier this year — declined to release details beyond what was already included in the court files, including video of the attack.
‘Mr. Pelosi opened the door, they were both holding a hammer and the police saw Mr. DePape pull that hammer away and then hit Mr. Pelosi,” Jenkins said Thursday. That’s most we’re going to say at this point. It is not our job to try this case in public or in the press. It’s to try it in a courtroom.’
According to Fox News, DePape did not appear at a hearing on Friday.
Pelosi returned home Thursday after being released from the hospital, the same San Francisco residence where he was attacked by a man with a hammer six days earlier and suffered a skull fracture.
San Francisco prosecutors refuse to release police bodycam and surveillance footage of the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins — who defeated DA Chesa Boudin in a recall earlier this year — declined to release details beyond what was already in court files
DePape failed to appear at a hearing Friday, according to Fox News
Pelosi was taken for treatment after DePape allegedly broke into his San Francisco home with a hammer and beat him.
“The Pelosi family is grateful for the wonderful 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 their outstanding and compassionate life-saving treatment he received following the violent attack in our home,” the statement said. . “Paul will remain under doctor’s care as he continues a long recovery and recovery process. He is now at home, surrounded by his family who ask for privacy.’
Doctors operated on Pelosi, a successful investor, to treat a skull fracture he sustained while struggling with his attacker.
The outspoken coverage of the incident comes as NBC News pulled a bombshell report claiming that Paul Pelosi failed to tell police officers he was in danger just before he was injured in a hammer attack at his San Francisco home last week.
Secret Service agents pictured in front of Pelosi .’s house on Thursday
Paul Pelosi, 82, was taken for treatment after David DePape allegedly broke into his San Francisco hammer and beat him
“The Pelosi family is grateful for the wonderful outpouring of love, support and prayers from around the world,” Pelosi’s office said in a statement.
Pelosi was released from hospital for six days after suffering a skull fracture when he was attacked by a hammer, according to multiple reports
The clip, posted by the media early Friday morning, quoted sources close to the investigation as saying that Pelosi’s husband had not declared a state of emergency or said he was in distress when police showed up at his door in response to his 911 call. .
The report from Emmy Award-winning journalist Miguel Almaguer claimed the 82-year-old walked back a few feet from the officers and into the foyer to DePape, who had previously broken into the home armed with a hammer.
When Pelosi reportedly stepped away from the responding officers and toward DePape, they saw him club Pelosi to death with the hammer, the report claimed.
The NBC News report also stated that it was not clear what Pelosi’s mental state was when he allegedly stepped back from the police and that the officers who had left the police were apparently unaware that it was the house. from Nancy Pelosi, who has a security detail and was in Washington. DC at the time of the attack.
The report, which differs from the court documents filed earlier this week, was published Friday morning.
The incident, just days before the November election, has prompted Congress to renew calls to strengthen security in the face of a growing threat against lawmakers.
Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat who is second in line to 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 bleak reminder of the threats facing elected officials and families in 2022.”
In a speech Wednesday, US President Joe Biden linked the attack to the political violence unleashed by supporters of ex-President Donald Trump against Congress on January 6, 2021.
Republicans, he said, have “encouraged violence and intimidation of voters and election officials.”
“That’s the road to chaos in America,” he said.