Paul Pelosi released from the hospital a week after the attack | World news
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her husband, Paul Pelosi, was released from the hospital Thursday after being treated for injuries from a violent attack last week in which he was attacked with a hammer.
Pelosi said, “Paul remains under the care of doctors as he continues to make progress on a long and comfortable recovery process. You are home now.”
Law enforcement officers who responded to the break-in early last Friday witnessed Paul Pelosi being hit in the head with a hammer at least once, according to court documents. Officials said the attack was caught on police body cameras.
Pelosi was taken to Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Speaker Pelosi said her husband thanked the 911 operator who led the police to the family’s residence, the emergency responders and all the hospital staff for their “excellent and compassionate life-saving care.”
“The Pelosi family is grateful for the beautiful outpouring of love, support and prayers from around the world,” he said.
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Paul Pelosi’s release from hospital comes as a federal official says the Canadian man accused of breaking into their home and assaulting him should be flagged by immigration officials and barred from returning to the US after he passes Your order entry was over two years ago.
David DePape, 42, entered the United States legally in 2000 and then left the country and returned several times, including in March 2008 at the San Diego border crossing of San Ysidro, a US official said. on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter.
Most Canadians do not need to obtain a visa to enter the US as tourists and can stay for up to six months. The official said it was unclear why US authorities seized DePape after he overstayed his entry in 2000.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to questions about DePape’s entry into the United States after violating immigration law. He acknowledged in a statement that DePape was allowed into San Diego from Tijuana on March 8, 2008, but did not challenge any other entries.
San Francisco police said DePape confronted Paul Pelosi at the family’s Pacific Heights home on Oct. 28 and demanded to know where the Speaker of the House was. DePape pleaded not guilty to the state charges on Tuesday and was ordered held without bail. The public defender, Adam Lipson, said he hopes to provide “a strong legal defense.”
DePape faces state charges of attempted murder, robbery and elder abuse. He also faces federal charges including attempted kidnapping of a U.S. government official. His state trial will continue on Friday, although the defendant will not appear in court. No trial has been scheduled on the federal charges.
In a state court filing, prosecutors described the attack in stark terms, saying Paul Pelosi, 82, was beaten unconscious by a hammer attack and woke up in a pool of his own blood.
DePape grew up in Powell River, British Columbia, but moved to California to be with a girlfriend, grandfather Gene DePape told The Associated Press last week. He has three children with two wives, he said. Gene DePape said the suspect had lived with him in Canada until he was 14 and had been a quiet boy.
DePape’s ex-girlfriend, Bay Area nudist activist Oxane “Gypsy” Taub, told the San Francisco Chronicle that she met DePape in Hawaii in 2000. The couple lived in Berkeley and had two children during their 15-year relationship.
U.S. officials have long struggled to measure — let alone track — people entering the country legally and without visas, believed to be about 40% of the country’s population. on the contrary.
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There were 684,499 visa delays from October 2019 through September 2020 among visitors arriving by plane or boat — more than residents of Vermont or Wyoming — according to a Department of Homeland Security report. new year The total number of arrests is very large but does not measure because it does not include the number of people who arrived by land, the main way for Canadians and Mexicans to enter the United States.
The cost and technical obstacles to establishing a payment system at the crowded land crossings with Canada and Mexico are great. In the 12 months to September 2020, more than 52,000 Canadians who came to the US by air or sea had their legal entry suspended.
Despite the challenges, the U.S. official said DePape’s delay in immigration records should have been noted, which, in theory, should have prevented authorities from accepting him.
