Paul Pelosi

Footage shows husband of former House speaker opening door and an intruder as the two wrestle over a hammer.

“There’s too much violence – political violence – too much hatred, too much vitriol,” Biden said shortly after the attack. Glenn Youngkin, the Republican governor of Virginia, joked at a campaign event that voters would “send [Nancy Pelosi] back to be with him in California”. Last June, a man carrying a gun was arrested outside the home of the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh after threatening to kill him. In court testimony last month, a San Francisco police investigator recounted how DePape claimed there was “evil in Washington” and described his initial plans to kidnap the House speaker. Pelosi, 82, suffered a skull fracture and injuries to his hand and arm in the attack, requiring him to undergo surgery. But he says “Nope”, then manages to grab it and swing it and, just off camera, hits Pelosi in the head.

A US court authorised the release of video from the October 2020 assault on Nancy Pelosi's husband.

He also sustained injuries to his hands and right arm. Police have previously said Mr DePape told them he was on a "suicide mission" when he smashed in the glass backdoor of the Pelosi home in the upmarket Pacific Heights neighbourhood. The video shows San Francisco police entering Mr Pelosi's home on the night of 28 October, where they see Mr DePape and Mr Pelosi both holding a hammer.

Police bodycam footage shows David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge towards him.

Initially, the hammer is in the shadows and it takes about five seconds before a torch shows DePape holding the handle with his right hand and with his left hand clutching Mr Pelosi’s right hand, which is gripping the hammer head. San Francisco Officer Kolby Wilmes’ bodycam video begins with officers approaching the brick home and knocking on the door. Mr Pelosi was asleep at the couple’s home when DePape allegedly broke in. He has since appeared in public wearing a hat and a glove that covered his wounds. The Capitol Police video shows DePape walk up to a glass door, leave and then return wearing a large backpack and carrying two other bags. The release of the video came after news agencies including the Associated Press sought access to the evidence that prosecutors played in open court last month.

Police bodycam video has been released showing the moment a man attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer in his San Francisco home.

It is, perhaps, no surprise that Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to watch such a brutal attack on her husband of 59 years caught on police body-worn cameras. I have not heard the confession. It has prompted a review of security procedures for high profile politicians. I have not seen the break-in. Police say the suspect is a conspiracy theorist who wanted to take his wife Nancy hostage. "I have not heard the 911 call.

Police body camera footage, along with surveillance video, an interview with the suspect and audio from Mr. Pelosi's 911 call, disproved but could not stop ...

“He’s been out a bit because the doctor said he has to have something to look forward to, and so again, one day at a time,” Ms. At both events, he wore a hat to cover any visible head injury and a dark glove to cover the hand that had been wounded. Pelosi and her family members have been candid about the long road he faces before he can make a full recovery. Pelosi placed while the intruder was in the house and an interview the suspect gave in which he said he was looking for Ms. He also faces federal charges of attempted kidnapping of a federal officer and assault on a family member of a federal official. Pelosi, whose speakership ended this month, has been one of the most threatened members of Congress, in part because of a coordinated effort by Republicans to target the most powerful woman in American politics. Also released Friday was Capitol Police surveillance footage of the Pelosi residence that showed the suspect breaking into the home through a back door. In the 911 call, Mr. In a brief, emotional statement to reporters at the Capitol on Friday, Ms. The new evidence underscored the spontaneous nature of the attack. The graphic and harrowing scene unfolds in a roughly 90-second clip of police body camera footage released on Friday by a San Francisco court in the trial of David DePape, the man who has been charged with assaulting Mr. Pelosi as the “leader of the pack” of lying Democrats who spent four years undermining Mr.