“This onslaught is terrifying, and the nonstop effect of toxic right-wing rhetoric and incitement against Speaker Pelosi and truthful galore different progressive leaders,” said authorities Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who had encountered DePape earlier the attack. “Words person consequences, and without question, the GOP’s hatred and extremism has bred governmental violence.”
Police said DePape wrestled a hammer from Pelosi wrong their location successful the Pacific Heights vicinity and struck him respective times. The 82-year-old hubby of the talker was hospitalized but expected to recover.
Until now, the fishy was known to beryllium portion of a radical of pro-nudist activists based crossed the Bay successful Berkeley.
A photograph published by the San Francisco Chronicle, and released aft his arrest, shows DePape presiding, afloat clothed, implicit the wedding of different nude activists extracurricular City Hall successful 2013.
The insubstantial said helium was known arsenic a “father figure” successful a Berkeley radical location that included a good known nudist activistic known arsenic Gypsy Taub. At the clip of the wedding helium was identified arsenic a hemp jewelry maker. Wiener told the Chronicle that DePape was among a fig of nude activists who protested astir San Francisco successful 2011 and 2012.
In much caller years, DePape has embraced the mendacious claims that the November 2021 predetermination was stolen, reposting connected Facebook — successful an relationship since removed from the level — bogus claims by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and others associated with the campaign.
He reposted a video connected YouTube denouncing the probe into the Jan. 6 onslaught connected the U.S. Capitol arsenic a “farce,” according to CNN.
A blog featuring contented authored by DePape offers a patchwork clasp of bigoted and fringe topics, including posts that diagnostic anti-Semitic language, allege the beingness of a “communist” docket successful schools and repetition galore of the tropes of the online fever imagination known arsenic QAnon, which alleges without grounds that starring figures prosecute successful pedophilia.
An archived leafage from another, now-defunct website besides attributed to DePape suggests fury toward the government, the mainstream media and firm powers, decrying “the elites/ruling class” and “the radical who regularisation you” portion informing “Tech giants and backstage industry” person go “so almighty they could azygous handedly soundlessness the people.”
It was capable for galore starring Democrats to reason that toxic governmental rhetoric was down the attack, adjacent without authorities disclosing a motive. “While the motive is inactive chartless we cognize wherever this benignant of unit is sanctioned and modeled,” Rep. Jackie Speier tweeted.
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