Police have released the body cam video of the moment a man attacked Paul Pelosi (US house speaker’s husband) and struck him with a hammer, in their home.
During a preliminary hearing last month, prosecutors played portions of Paul Pelosi’s 911 call plus footage from Capitol police surveillance cameras, body cameras worn by the two police officers who arrived at the house, and video from DePape’s interview with police.
The video footage was released by a court in San Francisco on Friday. The prosecution had previously refused to make the footage public but a judge ruled on Wednesday that it must be released.
Both video footage and a 911 audio call were also released.
The 911 call is just over 3 minutes long.
“There’s a gentleman here just waiting for my wife to come back. Nancy Pelosi,” Paul Pelosi can be heard calmly telling a 911 dispatcher.
“Do you need police, fire or medical for anything?” the dispatcher asks.
“I don’t think so, I don’t think so,” Paul Pelosi says. “Is the Capitol Police around? They’re usually here protecting my wife.”
“I’ve got a problem, but he thinks everything’s good,” Pelosi adds before adding that “[the suspect is] telling me to just put the phone down and do what he says.”
The man later identifies himself as David and tells the dispatcher that he’s “a friend of theirs.”
The call eventually ends when Paul Pelosi says “he wants me to get the hell off of the phone.”
The video footage captures what happened once police got to the Paul and Nancy Pelosi’s home:
Judge Stephen M. Murphy ruled there was no reason to keep the footage secret, especially after prosecutors played it in court during a preliminary hearing last month, according to Thomas R. Burke, a San Francisco-based lawyer who represented news agencies in their attempt to access the evidence.
Paul Pelosi was sleeping in their San Francisco home on October 28 when a man broke in and beat him with a hammer. Prosecutors have charged David DePape42-year-old in connection with the attack.