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2022-11-04 -Lurid Crime Tales-
NBC: Paul Pelosi walked away from police before hammer attack
...This is getting weirder and weirder, and trust me - I know from weird.
[HotAir] What actually transpired at the Pelosi household last week? We know the basics: a nutcase attacked an elderly man and nearly killed him after breaking into the house. We also know that Joe Biden and fellow Democrats have attempted to graft this attack onto their midterm "democracy in peril" messaging, including Biden’s national address this week, while simultaneously attempting to tamp down discussion of the facts of the case.

However, NBC offers new details this morning on the police response before the attack — and Paul Pelosi’s curious reaction to it, at least at first. According to their sources, Pelosi himself opened the door when police arrived, and rather than walk out, began to walk back toward assailant David DePape. DePape even assured police that everything was "good," which — given the broken window — police clearly didn’t believe.

Only then did the hammer attack occur, prompting an immediate response from the surprised officers, according to NBC:



None of this changes the basics of the case. DePape is still a lunatic who attacked an elderly man with a hammer after breaking into his house. Paul Pelosi is still lucky to be alive. But the sequence suggested by Miguel Almaguer raises some questions as to whether the attack itself might have been avoided, and what exactly was going on in the house before police arrived.

For instance, why would Pelosi have walked back toward DePape after opening the door to the police? Why not tell them he was in danger? NBC provides a couple of speculative opinions to answer the obvious question this report raises, but without any factual substantiation. They bring in a former FBI analyst to essentially claim that fear makes people do strange things, which may be true but still leaves the conclusion that it was a strange thing to do. The easiest thing to do would have been to walk the other way and tell officers of the danger inside. That would be even more true in the case of an intruder than, say, a domestic-violence situation, where the "fear makes you do strange things" explanation might apply more.

More oddities emerge, too. The new details don’t include whether Pelosi had been attacked prior to the officer’s arrival on scene; Miguel Almaguer notes that explicitly, in fact. If Pelosi was injured prior to their arrival, though, why would police have allowed him to go back into a residence with evidence of burglary apparent? In fact, one has to wonder why they would have let Pelosi do that even without apparent injuries, given the scene at that moment. And why weren’t the officers informed that the residence belonged to the Speaker of the House, who is second in line for succession to the presidency and could have also been inside the home at the time?

Body-cam video and the police reports would be helpful in this case to suss out the answers to the questions raised. At the moment, though, those are not available — and may not be for a long time. As David Strom wrote yesterday, the media doesn’t seem interested in digging deeper into the oddities of this case, and in fact are casting aspersions on anyone looking for some actual journalism in this case as conspiracy-theory kooks.
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Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-11-04 09:27|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top

#1 Bath house Paui.
Posted by crazyhorse 2022-11-04 11:36||   2022-11-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#2 One thing I would say about having worked in the Bay Area - you get used to being around weird people. It is possible to kid yourself that they are harmless. You can run into cases like the guy who thought he was the bear whisperer but with people.
Posted by Super Hose 2022-11-04 12:15||   2022-11-04 12:15|| Front Page Top

#3 In fairness, Paul's more recent encounters with the law haven't been that terrific.
Posted by Cesare 2022-11-04 12:29||   2022-11-04 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Somebody needs to make a FOIA request.
Posted by jpal 2022-11-04 12:30||   2022-11-04 12:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Curiouser and curiouser....
Posted by Mercutio 2022-11-04 12:39||   2022-11-04 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Without body cam footage, without whatever video the Capitol Police might have, conspiracy theories will thrive. Don't blame the theorists. They've heard too many lies to take this sort of thing at face value without any evidence.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-11-04 12:57||   2022-11-04 12:57|| Front Page Top

#7 So, we're just supposed to forget the SFPD stated clearly that a 3rd person answered the door, and does any of the possibilities here represent a violation of his DUI probation? We'll never know as SF FBI is on the case for yet another coverup.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-11-04 13:17||   2022-11-04 13:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Mystery of Paul Pelosi hammer attack deepens as new police account reveals how Speaker's husband calmly opened door to cops after phoning 911, did NOT reveal he was in trouble and then walked BACK towards 'intruder' who bludgeoned him
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-04 13:18||   2022-11-04 13:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems like this entire incident is wanting to be corn-holed.

Um... memory-holed. My mistake.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-04 13:19||   2022-11-04 13:19|| Front Page Top

#10 having worked in the Bay Area - you get used to being around weird people

Not “weird.” VIBRANT!
and vibrating mmmmmmm
Posted by Paul Palomino Pelosi  2022-11-04 13:35||   2022-11-04 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Last time he took a blow like that he tried to drive home.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-04 14:00||   2022-11-04 14:00|| Front Page Top

#12 a former FBI analyst to essentially claim that fear makes people do strange things...

An FBI analyst that has never, ever been on a call for service and has nothing more than their uninformed opinion to offer. That is pretty weak NBC.
Posted by Tennessee 2022-11-04 14:01||   2022-11-04 14:01|| Front Page Top

#13 If Pelosi called 911 did he decide he needed a wellness check? That's not the way it works.
Where did the hammer come from?
why do they keep saying it was a break in when it obviously wasn't?

and on and on.
Posted by AlanC 2022-11-04 14:21||   2022-11-04 14:21|| Front Page Top

#14 Why are the charges Federal and not local?
Posted by Classical_Liberal 2022-11-04 15:00||   2022-11-04 15:00|| Front Page Top

#15 Probably so some Fed can take over the case, and evidence, and bury it.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-04 15:20||   2022-11-04 15:20|| Front Page Top

#16 NBC News mysteriously PULLS its exclusive report on how Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul, 82, calmly opened door to cops in his underpants - and then walked TOWARDS 'hammer intruder' who bludgeoned him
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-04 16:33||   2022-11-04 16:33|| Front Page Top

#17 " the Bureau and DOJ cannot comment on an ongoing investigation"...Its a federal crime to leak investigative information, so the SFPD/SFDA are careful about any leaks.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-11-04 16:36||   2022-11-04 16:36|| Front Page Top

#18 This is the Secret Service?
Unshaven fat guys in polo-khakis?
Posted by Skidmark 2022-11-04 16:37||   2022-11-04 16:37|| Front Page Top

#19 ^shhhhhh they're "secret".
Posted by Rex Mundi 2022-11-04 16:39||   2022-11-04 16:39|| Front Page Top

#20 Think the portly woman with her back to the camera got some PT waivers to get on the force?
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-11-04 16:45||   2022-11-04 16:45|| Front Page Top

#21 Pelosi is not a USSS protected. Capitol Police are responsible for her. CCTV at the house is monitored by Capitol Police.
Posted by Bangkok Billy 2022-11-04 16:47||   2022-11-04 16:47|| Front Page Top

#22 Where’s Michael L Byrd when you need him?
Posted by Betty Flenter6356 2022-11-04 17:44||   2022-11-04 17:44|| Front Page Top

#23 The unshaven fat dudes in the photo are the Washington Wizards semi-pro basketball team
Posted by Ebberens Spusong3152 2022-11-04 17:47||   2022-11-04 17:47|| Front Page Top

#24 Ref #21: She 'is' USSS protected, but only in her dreams.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-11-04 17:56||   2022-11-04 17:56|| Front Page Top

#25 "We were told there'd be hookers and blow!"
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-11-04 18:45||   2022-11-04 18:45|| Front Page Top

#26 Hammers and blow

Silly peasant.

Insiderz rule!
Posted by Paul Palomino Pelosi  2022-11-04 18:55||   2022-11-04 18:55|| Front Page Top

#27 NBC’s now-pulled report:

Paul Pelosi never let on to responding officers that he was in distress just seconds before he walked back into his house where a man bludgeoned him with a hammer, new details have revealed.

The 82-year-old husband of the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi instead smiled at the officers who had responded to the high priority 911 call at his San Francisco home last week, according to court documents, and told them ‘everything’s good.’
Posted by Everythings Good 2022-11-04 19:04||   2022-11-04 19:04|| Front Page Top

#28 ‘everything’s good.’

as in: "No hammers...without the password, so far"
Posted by Frank G 2022-11-04 20:41||   2022-11-04 20:41|| Front Page Top

#29 Since the Feds have taken over the prosecution, we clearly need a Congressional Committee to investigate.
Posted by Matt 2022-11-04 21:35||   2022-11-04 21:35|| Front Page Top

#30 No need. Everything’s good.
Posted by Everythings Good 2022-11-04 21:40||   2022-11-04 21:40|| Front Page Top

#31 No hammers...without the password, so far

Paul forgot the safe word
Posted by DarthVader 2022-11-04 21:47||   2022-11-04 21:47|| Front Page Top

#32 ...This is getting weirder and weirder

Amen to that. A whole lot of time has been spent shaping and crafting a narrative as to what happened rather than just tell the truth as it happened. As has been said, there are a lot of strange things happening in that household.
Posted by JohnQC 2022-11-04 22:26||   2022-11-04 22:26|| Front Page Top

#33 And then, when he finally came to,
His vision was blurred. Blue, red, blue.
As he groped for the hammer,
He heard his pal stammer,
"No, everything's good," and he knew
If he wanted to live
And his legs didn't give
What the voices would want him to do.

West Hollywood Swinging, or, dunno. Emergency?
Posted by Snaigum Ebberetch6009 2022-11-04 22:28||   2022-11-04 22:28|| Front Page Top

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