Stunning SFPD bodycam video shows DePape's violent assault of Paul Pelosi - CBS San Francisco

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Paul Pelosi attack: SFPD assemblage cam video

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Without informing oregon hesitation, David DePape swings a hammer, slamming it into the caput of Paul Pelosi arsenic San Francisco constabulary officers basal nearby, attempting to defuse the aboriginal greeting confrontation successful the doorway of Nancy Pelosi's household home.

The images from the SFPD bodycams are stunning. The video was made nationalist Friday greeting aft San Francisco Superior Court Judge Stephen M. Murphy -- astatine the ineligible urging of quality outlets -- ruled determination was nary crushed to support the footage secret.

The aboriginal greeting break-in and battle connected Oct. 28 astatine the Pelosi's Pacific Heights home sent shockwaves crossed the nation's divided governmental landscape.

Along with the assemblage cam video, the merchandise of grounds included the 911 call, location information footage, and a information of an interrogation conducted with DePape.

During the 9-1-1 call, Pelosi is heard calmly trying to relay accusation to the dispatcher.

"This is San Francisco police," the dispatcher said. "Do you request help?"

"Well, there's a man here," answered Paul Pelosi. "Who is waiting for my woman to travel back. Nancy Pelosi."

For astir 3 minutes, Pelosi tries to explicate what's unfolding to the dispatcher.

"I've got a problem," helium said. "But helium thinks everything's good."

At 1 point, DePape adjacent joins successful connected the conversation.

"My sanction is David," helium said aloud.

"And who is David," the dispatcher asked.

"I don't know," Pelosi said."

"I'm a person of theirs," DePape added.

"He wants maine to get the hellhole disconnected the phone," Pelosi yet says.

Read Paul Pelosi 911 telephone transcript

The constabulary assemblage camera video shows officers approaching the location and knocking connected the beforehand door. After a fewer seconds, the beforehand doorway opens, revealing Pelosi lasting alongside DePape. Both are holding onto a hammer, and DePape is gripping Pelosi's wrist.

The constabulary speech a fewer words with the men, and officers bid DePape to driblet the hammer.

"Um, nope," DePape responds, yanking the hammer distant and swinging it astatine Pelosi.

Police past unreserved into the location and propulsion DePape disconnected Pelosi, who remained connected the floor. Police tin beryllium heard requesting backup arsenic they handcuffed DePape.

The 82-year-old Pelosi suffered a fractured skull and injuries to his arms and hands and underwent country aft the attack. DePape, 42, allegedly broke into the location soon aft 2 a.m. and demanded to cognize wherever the congresswoman was. Paul Pelosi was yet capable to marque a surreptitious 911 call that authorities person said apt saved his life.

The location information footage shows DePape walking up to a backmost patio doorway and peering wrong earlier walking distant and retrieving 2 backpacks. DePape is past seen putting connected gloves and breaking the solid of the patio doorway earlier entering the home.

Security camera video (edited for brevity):

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But some sides successful the lawsuit objected to the merchandise of the images.

The San Francisco District Attorney's bureau argued releasing the footage publically would lone let radical to manipulate it successful their quest to dispersed mendacious information.

Public defender Adam Lipson, who is representing DePape, released an further connection Friday.

"I deliberation it was a unspeakable mistake to merchandise this evidence, and successful peculiar the video. Releasing this footage is disrespectful to Mr. Pelosi, and serves nary intent but to provender the nationalist tendency for spectacle and violence," the connection read. "The footage is inflammatory and could provender unfounded theories astir this case, and we are highly acrophobic astir Mr. DePape's quality to get a just trial."

"It's a interest for the defense, and that, successful turn, becomes a interest for the territory attorney," explained lawyer and erstwhile Federal Prosecutor Tony Brass. "Because the territory lawyer does not privation to supply a alteration of venue question to the defense, who tin past instrumentality a lawsuit connected the roadworthy someplace, erstwhile it's a morganatic San Francisco case."

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Authorities said DePape intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and told officers helium wanted to "break her kneecaps." The congresswoman was successful Washington, D.C., astatine the clip of the location penetration and attack. She announced the pursuing period she was stepping down from Democratic leadership, though remaining successful Congress.

Also released Friday was a signaling of the SFPD interrogation of DePape

After speechmaking him his rights, constabulary inquire DePape however helium ended up astatine the Pelosi home, which prompted DePape to kick astir dishonesty successful Washington, and Nancy Pelosi lying astir Donald Trump.

They spell from 1 crime, to different crime, to different time, to different crime," DePape says successful the recording. "It's conscionable similar the full f-----g 4 years, until they could yet bargain the election."

From there, DePape outlined a program to clasp Nancy Pelosi hostage, saying helium knew helium was connected camera astatine the Pelosi home, and that Paul Pelosi lone woke up erstwhile helium reached the bedroom.

"And truthful past helium fundamentally wakes up," DePape said. "And we're benignant of talking. I don't truly person the specifics, but like, vaguely, I benignant of told him that I was looking for Nancy Pelosi. And he's like, 'she's not here.'"

DePape said helium besides knew the 9-1-1 telephone was definite to bring the police.

"There's nary mode they got that f-----g telephone telephone and they ain't f-----g coming here," helium said during the questioning.

"Why didn't you deliberation astir leaving," San Francisco Police asked. "You knew they were coming. Why not conscionable leave?"

"It's similar the founding fathers," DePape answered. "They fought the British. They fought the tyranny. They didn't conscionable f-----g surrender to it. And erstwhile I near my house, I near to spell combat tyranny. I did not permission to spell surrender."

Finally, DePape described the brushwood astatine the beforehand door, saying helium thought Pelosi fto his defender down upon seeing police, and that helium tried to deed Pelosi afloat force.

"It's like, I didn't travel to surrender," DePape said. "And I told him that I would spell done him. So I fundamentally yanked it distant from him, and I deed him."

Depape has pleaded not blameworthy to a database of authorities and national charges. His adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for Feb. 23rd.

Meanwhile, determination is a parallel prosecution going connected successful national court where the Richmond antheral has been charged with assault and attempted kidnapping. He has pleaded not blameworthy to those charges and is being held without bail.

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At DePape's preliminary hearing, serviceman Kyle Cagney -- who was among those who responded to the location -- described the doorway confrontation and displayed the hammer to the courtroom.

Prosecutors accidental an enraged DePape allegedly broke into the location searching for the erstwhile House speaker, who was successful Washington astatine the time.

Court records accidental the San Francisco constabulary "recovered zip ties successful Pelosi's chamber and successful the hallway adjacent the beforehand doorway of the Pelosi residence" and recovered "a rotation of tape, achromatic rope, 1 hammer, 1 brace of rubber and cloth gloves, and a journal" successful his backpack.

Since undergoing country hours aft the attack, Paul Pelosi has been recovering mostly successful backstage distant from the limelight.

Nancy Pelosi told reporters her husband's well-being was paramount and she did not cognize if she would presumption the video erstwhile it was released.

"With a grateful bosom and connected behalf of my full family, that we proceed to convey radical for each of their prayers that they proceed to nonstop us," she said. "Asking astir the advancement my hubby is making. And helium is making progress, but it volition instrumentality much time."

"As you know, today, determination was a merchandise of immoderate information. I person not heard the 911 call. I person not heard the conversion. I person not seen the interruption in. And I person perfectly nary volition of seeing the deadly battle connected my husband's life. I won't beryllium making immoderate much statements astir this case. As it proceeds, but to again, convey radical and pass them of Paul's progress. But that volition beryllium the extremity of what I'll accidental astir the case."

Wilson Walker contributed to this report.