ALEXANDRA Pelosi, the U.S. Capitol Police, and David DePape: An Insight in the Streaked Capitol
In the new video footage, Nancy Pelosi is shown talking on the phone to the governor of Virginia about sending help to the Capitol.
Other footage showed congressional leaders — including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Rep. Steve Scalise — in secure locations working the phones to ensure their colleagues were safe. There are snippets of them around cell phones and tense scenes of the rioters chanting outside.
At one point, Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sit on a bench talking to a acting Attorney General about rioters runningsacking their officers and worried about their personal safety.
Pelosi says that they’re breaking the law in many different ways. “And quite frankly, much of it at the instigation of the president of the United States.”
The footage from the historic day was captured by a documentary filmmaker named ALEXANDRA P Pelosi and her mother, according to a Washington Post reporter.
In a statement, the U.S. Capitol Police said their command center has access to more than 1800 cameras and that they watch ” around the clock when she is there.” The statement acknowledged that because the speaker wasn’t home those cameras were not as actively monitored, but the statement says, their officers used information from the feed to help local respond to the incident.
The Washington Post first reported that the cameras installed by the U.S. Capitol Police were on when David DePape broke into the home through a rear door, but no one at the law enforcement’s command center in Washington, D.C., was watching when he entered.
The husband of the speaker was attacked with a hammer by DePape who broke into the residence early in the morning. The charges of assault and attempted homicide and attempted kidnapping of an U.S. official were filed after he stated that he was looking for the speaker. The San Francisco police arrived quickly after Mrs. Pelosi called for help. When officers arrived, they found DePape and Pelosi struggling with the hammer, but DePape pulled it away and struck Mr. Pelosi with it. He underwent successful surgery for a fractured skull and severe injuries to his arm and hands, and is recovering at a hospital in San Francisco.
The San Francisco Police Department leads the investigation and a task force was created in the wake of the attack. The statement released on Tuesday said the attack on Mr. Pelosi was an ” alarming reminder of the dangerous threats elected officials face in today’s contentious political climate.”
He said that the agency had stepped up its security measures since the January 6 riot at the Capitol and that it was on track to fill vacancies on the force. The current climate causes more resources to be allocated for the security of Members of Congress. The plan would include an emphasis on the added benefits of the measures already in place.
After a significant increase in threats, lawmakers were given additional resources to increase security measures at both their homes and their offices.
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The statement praised he work of the members of the agency and added what appeared to be a warning: “a significant change that will have an immediate impact will be for people across our country to lower the temperature on political rhetoric before it’s too late.”
Manger sent a memo to all House members and staff following last week’s attack urging them to take advantage of resources to help protect them, including coordination with local law enforcement about threats, training and briefing for offices, and increasing patrols of district residences.