Posted on 11/01/2022 7:38:52 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins on Monday announced a host of charges, including attempted murder, against alleged Paul Pelosi attacker, David DePape.
"The charges that we are filing today include attempted murder, residential burglary, assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, false imprisonment of an elder as well as threats to a public official and their family," Jenkins said, per Fox News.
DePape allegedly broke into the Pelosi household in San Francisco seeking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A 911 dispatcher later contacted the authorities and sent them to the home after interpreting Paul Pelosi's "coded" words through an open line. During the incident, Pelosi was struck with a hammer.
Federal authorities announced charges against DePape on Monday for attempted kidnapping and assaulting the family of a public official in retaliation for their job performance.
Reports also emerged on Monday that DePape was in the country illegally, having arrived in the U.S. 20 years ago from Canada and overstayed his VISA.
Jenkins took office earlier this year after she quit working for progressive former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and backed a recall effort against him. She has since taken a tougher approach to tackling crime in the city than her predecessor, revoking at least 30 plea deals Boudin negotiated, some of which she viewed as too lenient.
Steve Wilkos needs to give both persons lie detector tests
Host of charges LOL
Loop hole lawyer Larry
You people said he has mental problems how you going to flip happy farm time for cell time?.
You can bet this guy got no early release on cashless bail. He will likely never see daylight again.
This is just another example of the glaring two tiered justice system in the US.
I sure hope that’s not lost on a lot of folks.
Paul Pelosi seems to keep putting himself in the news.
Paul Pelosi dared to pick up a phone to call 911, but he had to speak “code” to the dispatcher?
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Yeah.
Sure.
There was some debate on earlier threads that the elder abuse charge implies the two knew each other. That I assume from the circumstances and the 911 call is now a given.
If Nancy Pelosi thought a Republican tried to attack her, she would have been screaming for four days straight.
This is all baloney.
Charges will disappear in six months as mental evaluation is completed, and the guy is declared nuts. He’ll get shipped off to some state facility, and eventually removed back to Canada to sit in one of their facilities.
Three of those code words must have been “he’s a friend”.
Will he be deported if he’s in fact an illegal alien as I saw reported yesterday?
“Later contacted”? “‘Coded’ words”? Gimme a break. Saying your “friend” is there is a code word?
All you have to do is say, “help,” and the cavalry will arrive. Or you can call and hang up.
Good luck finding him a lawyer. No one to theleftNixon will defend him, and right leaning lawyers will stay away so they don’t contribute to the MAGA waste cause of this meme.
There are a lot of meetings to figure out when, where and how to off DePape.
They’ll quietly cute a deal, toss him in prison where he’ll quietly suicide when the cameras are off line.
Although we’d think an attempted murder charge would make it more likely to get the truth via a vigorous defense, I believe it does the opposite. I believe it is the first move in ensuring there is NO defense.
They will offer to plead down to a lesser charge in exchange for complete silence from the defense. The whole strategy is to charge him as high as you can to buy you leverage when the “negotiations” start.
Watch for it.
Will he be released on a no money Bail?
Asking for a friend....
“No breaking and entering?
Threat to public official...guess some animals are more equal than others.”
Good point on the breaking and entering. The question then becomes, “how did he get into the house”.
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