Reports claim that the body cam footage captured by police officers who arrived at the home of Nancy and Paul Pelosi on the night 42-year-old David DePape allegedly attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer indicates that Paul Pelosi opened the door for police, contradicting a federal grand jury indictment filed last week.
NBC Bay Area reports that they “spoke with a source familiar with the Pelosi investigation, who personally viewed body camera video recorded by officers responding to the Pelosi’s San Francisco home.” they say the body cam video shows Paul Pelosi opening the door for police, despite claims by the DOJ saying otherwise.
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins previously said that on the night of October 28, DePape broke in through the rear glass door, sneaking into the bedroom where Paul Pelosi was sleeping. She said there was no security present at the time.
Paul Pelosi called 911 from a bathroom, and when San Francisco police officers arrived on scene, DePape and Pelosi struggled over a hammer, and DePape wrestled it away from Pelosi and struck him over the head, fracturing his skull. DePape was arrested and Pelosi was taken to a hospital, although he is expected to make a full recovery.
Early reports claimed that Pelosi opened the door for police, but the DOJ complaint reads, “Moments later, at approximately 2:31 a.m., SFPD officers responded to the Pelosi Residence and two officers knocked on the front door. The two officers who approached the door had their body-worn cameras activated. The two officers opened the door to see the foyer of the Pelosi Residence, Mr. Pelosi, wearing a long-sleeved shirt, DEPAPE in shorts, running shoes and a sweatshirt, and DEPAPE and Mr. Pelosi jointly gripping a hammer.”
“DEPAPE then pulled the hammer over his head, thereby also pulling Mr. Pelosi closer to him and swung the hammer abruptly and forcefully at Mr. Pelosi. In total, these events lasted approximately fifteen seconds,” the complaint reads. “As the officers rushed through the door, they found Mr. Pelosi and DEPAPE on the floor, with DEPAPE’s legs on top of Mr. Pelosi. Officers restrained DEPAPE and called for medical assistance, as a pool of blood swelled around Mr. Pelosi’s head.”
DePape was allegedly there for the House Speaker and planned to wait for her return.
On November 1 at the arraignment hearing DePape pleaded not guilty to a number of felonies unrelated to the federal complaint. These include charges of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, residential burglary, false imprisonment of an elder, elder abuse and threats to a public official and her family.
DePape, an illegal immigrant, was previously in a romantic relationship with 53-year-old Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, who was a convicted pedophile and stalker of a 14-year-old boy whom she met through one of her sons. Taub spoke to local ABC news on Sunday while calling from the California Institution for Women in Corona, California, telling them, “He is mentally ill. He has been mentally ill for a long time.”
DePape has also been accused of child sexual abuse by Taub’s daughter, Inti Gonzalez.
Reports say that, “Neighbors described DePape as a homeless addict with politics that was, until recently, left-wing, but of secondary importance to his psychotic and paranoid behavior.”
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