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Graphic video of attack on Paul Pelosi is released

Police tape is seen in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D- Calif., on Oct. 28, 2022, in San Francisco. Her husband Paul Pelosi was violently attacked in their home by an intruder. The speaker was not at home at the time of the attack.

A San Francisco court on Friday released a graphic video showing the moment an intruder wielding a hammer attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of then-U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, inside the couple’s home.

David DePape is accused of breaking into the lawmaker’s San Francisco home in the early hours of Oct. 28, 2022, and attacking Paul Pelosi, fracturing the 82-year-old’s skull and causing other serious injuries. DePape has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder and threats to a public official and their family.

The body-camera footage, which confirms the narrative investigators provided after the attack, shows police arriving at the Pacific Heights home to find Pelosi and the suspect standing calmly each with a hand on a large hammer.

After police demanded they drop the weapon, DePape wrested control of the hammer, swung it above

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