{"id":1715221,"date":"2022-10-28T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715221"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T18:48:16","slug":"suspect-who-allegedly-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-is-identified-former-castro-nudist-protester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-who-allegedly-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-is-identified-former-castro-nudist-protester\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Who Allegedly Attacked Paul Pelosi With Hammer Is Identified: \u2018Former Castro Nudist Protester\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsuspect-who-allegedly-attacked-paul-pelosi-with-hammer-is-identified-former-castro-nudist-protester%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1715221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The man who allegedly broke into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, was identified Friday afternoon as 42-year-old David Depape.<\/p>\n<p>Police said at a press conference that they responded to the home around 2:30 a.m. and that when they arrived on scene they witnessed the suspect and Paul Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer. The suspect \u201cpulled the hammer away from Mr. Pelosi and violently assaulted him with it,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur officers immediately tackled the suspect, disarmed him, took him into custody, requested emergency backup and rendered medical aid,\u201d police added.<\/p>\n<p>No motive was released as officials said that the investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Both Paul Pelosi and the suspect were transported to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarly this morning, an assailant broke into the Pelosi residence in San Francisco and violently assaulted Mr. Pelosi,\u201d Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said. \u201cThe assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation. Mr. Pelosi was taken to the hospital, where he is receiving excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heavy.com, a fact-finding website, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/kVsqk\">highlighted<\/a> a tweet from a Mission Local journalist Joe Eskenazi that stated: \u201cMy sources also name the suspect in this morning\u2019s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of Berkeley. He would appear to be a former Castro nudist protester. Things appear set to be bizarre for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/Naked-truth-behind-Gypsy-Taub-s-nude-nuptials-5070034.php#taboola-1\">report<\/a> highlighted a 2013 article San Francisco Chronicle in which the same man appears to have been mentioned, although his name is spelled wrong in the article but is spelled correctly in the captions of the one of the photos included in the article. The article described him as a \u201chemp jewelry maker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reportedly Paul Pelosi attacker is David Depape \u2014 a Castro supporting nudist transient from Berkeley CA (he\u2019s on the far LEFT literally and figuratively) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nR46npzcM6\">pic.twitter.com\/nR46npzcM6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lidia Curanaj (@LidiaNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LidiaNews\/status\/1586048286946779138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 28, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nancy Pelosi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-nancy-pelosis-husband-violently-assaulted-hospitalized-after-break-in-at-california-home\">was not home<\/a> when the attacked occurred.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported that the assailant tried to tie Paul Pelosi up and repeatedly asked, \u201cWhere\u2019s Nancy?\u201d\u00a0When the police arrived at the residence, the attacker said he was \u201cwaiting for Nancy,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Capitol Police, FBI and San Francisco Police Department are conducting a joint investigation into the attack, according to the Capitol Police, which said in a statement that staff from the field office \u201cquickly arrived on scene, while a team of investigators from the Department\u2019s Threat Assessment Section was simultaneously dispatched from the East Coast to assist the FBI and the San Francisco Police with a joint investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who allegedly broke into the home of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and attacked her husband, Paul Pelosi, was identified Friday afternoon as 42-year-old David Depape. Police said at a press conference that they responded to the home around 2:30 a.m. and that when they arrived on scene they witnessed the suspect and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1715224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1715224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}