San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, announcing 5 abstracted felony charges against DePape aboriginal Monday, suggested the onslaught was politically motivated.
“It is incumbent upon america each to ticker the words we accidental and to crook down the measurement of our governmental rhetoric,” Jenkins said.
Jenkins’ bureau connected Monday charged DePape with attempted murder, residential burglary, battle with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, mendacious imprisonment of an elder, and threats to a nationalist authoritative and their family.
The alleged attacker “specifically targeted the Pelosi location to face Speaker Pelosi,” Jenkins said.
Here are 5 caller details included successful the national charging papers oregon discussed astatine Monday’s quality league successful San Francisco.
1. Paul Pelosi told constabulary helium woke up with the attacker successful the room
The speaker’s hubby was dormant successful his chamber erstwhile DePape broke successful done a solid door, entered and demanded to talk to Nancy Pelosi, according to the affidavit. No information was contiguous astatine the time, Jenkins said.
Paul Pelosi was wearing a pajama garment and boxers erstwhile the attacker arrived, Jenkins said. He appeared amazed to spot the antheral successful his room, according to a constabulary relationship based connected an interrogation with DePape.
2. San Francisco constabulary officers recovered supplies successful a backpack
DePape carried zip ties, tape, rope, a brace of rubber and cloth gloves, a diary and “at slightest 1 hammer” with him to the Pelosi home, according to the affidavit.
Law enforcement besides seized a sword and 2 hammers successful the store wherever DePape lived.
3. DePape told constabulary helium was similar the country’s founders
After Paul Pelosi informed him the talker was not astatine home, DePape said helium would “sit and wait” for respective days for her to arrive, the affidavit said. And erstwhile Pelosi tried to usage a telephone housed successful an in-home elevator to telephone police, DePape blocked him, Jenkins said.
DePape besides did not permission aft Pelosi called 911, due to the fact that helium felt that “much similar the American founding fathers with the British, helium was warring against tyranny without the enactment of surrender,” according to DePape’s connection to San Francisco police.
4. Alleged menace to interruption “her kneecaps”
DePape told constabulary helium intended to instrumentality the talker hostage, speech to her and interruption “her kneecaps” if she lied, according to the affidavit.
DePape, the affidavit said, “was definite that Nancy would not person told the ‘truth.’”
5. DePape said successful a constabulary connection helium wanted to lure idiosyncratic else
DePape told constabulary helium wanted “to usage Nancy to lure different individual,” the affidavit said. The papers doesn’t accidental who the different idiosyncratic mightiness person been. But DePape told constabulary successful the aforesaid connection that helium viewed Pelosi arsenic “‘leader of the pack’ of lies told by the Democratic Party.”
(Democrats person openly blamed Republican rhetoric for the attack, portion immoderate apical Republicans person denied specified a link.)
Lara Korte and Jeremy B. White contributed to this report.
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