SACRAMENTO, Calif. — San Francisco Superior Court docket on Friday launched video and audio recorded throughout final 12 months’s attack on Paul Pelosi after a California courtroom dominated the district legal professional’s workplace should make the supplies public.
VIDEO: Watch hammer assault footage
One of many movies reveals body-cam footage from officers who arrived at Pelosi’s residence on October 28, 2022, when he was attacked. The footage reveals the chaos of the second through which alleged assailant David DePape attacked the husband of former Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Within the video, Paul Pelosi and DePape each seem to have a hand on the hammer and DePape is holding Pelosi’s arm when the officers opened the door.
“Drop the hammer,” the officer says.
“Uh, nope,” DePape responds.
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DePape then grabbed the hammer out of Pelosi’s hand and lunged towards him. The officers rushed into the house, subduing DePape and handcuffing him.
CNN has obtained the CD containing the recordsdata launched by the courtroom. Along with the body-cam footage, the recordsdata embrace audio from police interviews with DePape, the 911 name Paul Pelosi made whereas DePape was within the residence and residential surveillance video, the courtroom beforehand mentioned.
The movies have been displays in a preliminary courtroom listening to. The courtroom’s resolution mandating the general public launch of the supplies got here following a movement by a coalition of reports organizations, together with CNN, arguing that the circumstances involving the residence of the then-speaker of the Home demanded transparency.
Legal professionals for DePape argued in opposition to the general public launch of the audio and pictures, writing it might “irreparably harm” his proper to a good trial. DePape has pleaded not responsible to a litany of state and federal crimes associated to the assault, together with assault and tried homicide.
VIDEO: David DePape pleads not guilty to state charges in attack of Paul Pelosi at family’s SF home
Pelosi was violently attacked in October with a hammer on the couple’s residence by a male assailant who was looking for the then-Home speaker, in keeping with courtroom paperwork — a improvement that in the end drove Nancy Pelosi’s resolution to step again from Home Democratic management.
Court docket paperwork revealed DePape allegedly woke Paul Pelosi shortly after 2 a.m., carrying a big hammer and a number of other white zip ties, and demanded: “The place’s Nancy? The place’s Nancy?” He then threatened to tie up Paul Pelosi and prevented him from escaping through elevator, in keeping with the paperwork. DePape later allegedly instructed him, “I can take you out.”
Paul Pelosi positioned a 911 name after convincing the assailant to let him go to the toilet, the place his cellphone was charging, and he spoke cryptically to police.
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Following the assault, Paul Pelosi underwent surgical procedure “to restore a cranium fracture and severe accidents to his proper arm and arms,” a spokesman for Nancy Pelosi mentioned in a press release.
On Thursday, the Democratic congresswoman instructed reporters that her husband’s restoration is “sooner or later at a time.”
“He is made some progress but it surely’ll be about at the very least three extra months, I believe, till he’ll be again to regular, however the prayers are very useful,” Pelosi mentioned.
She told reporters Thursday that she had not seen video from the incident and doesn’t know if she is going to.
“It will be a really arduous factor to see an assault on my husband’s life. However I do not know.”
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