I have no tolerance for this.
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Paul Pelosi didn't get SWATted. He was the victim of a home invasion that went violent.
Horrible, yes.
Not at all the same.
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Paul Pelosi didn't get SWATted. He was the victim of a home invasion that went violent.
Horrible, yes.
Not at all the same.
@George-K said in I have no tolerance for this.:
Paul Pelosi didn't get SWATted. He was the victim of a home invasion that went violent.
Horrible, yes.
Not at all the same.
No, what happened to Pelosi was much, much worse. But a number of people apparently thought it was funny. The same people that think it's terrible when MTG had the cops come round because some knobhead played a stupid practical joke.
What can I say?
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Someone's going to jail.
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@George-K said in I have no tolerance for this.:
Someone's going to jail.
Hope so.
I suspect investigative assets will be made available to the local police.
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A federal judge sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison on Friday, more than 18 months after he attacked then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer in the elderly couple’s San Francisco home.
The three-decade sentence was handed down by U.S. district judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who ordered DePape to serve 20 years for an attempted kidnapping charge and 30 years for an assault charge. Both sentences will run simultaneously. DePape, who was convicted in November, has already served the first year and a half since he’s been in police custody.
During his federal trial last fall, DePape admitted to breaking into the Pelosi family’s home on October 28, 2022, and apologized for hitting Paul Pelosi with a hammer. He said he intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and hold her hostage. But after discovering the House speaker was in Washington, D.C., on business, he planned on waiting for her to return before Paul Pelosi called the police.
Believed to have been motivated by conspiracy theories, DePape wanted to question the longtime California Democrat about her alleged involvement in stealing the 2020 election from former president Donald Trump. If she lied, he threatened to “break her kneecaps.” The defendant appears to have been affiliated with nudists and conspiracy theorists in the past.
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A federal judge sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison on Friday, more than 18 months after he attacked then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband with a hammer in the elderly couple’s San Francisco home.
The three-decade sentence was handed down by U.S. district judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who ordered DePape to serve 20 years for an attempted kidnapping charge and 30 years for an assault charge. Both sentences will run simultaneously. DePape, who was convicted in November, has already served the first year and a half since he’s been in police custody.
During his federal trial last fall, DePape admitted to breaking into the Pelosi family’s home on October 28, 2022, and apologized for hitting Paul Pelosi with a hammer. He said he intended to kidnap Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) and hold her hostage. But after discovering the House speaker was in Washington, D.C., on business, he planned on waiting for her to return before Paul Pelosi called the police.
Believed to have been motivated by conspiracy theories, DePape wanted to question the longtime California Democrat about her alleged involvement in stealing the 2020 election from former president Donald Trump. If she lied, he threatened to “break her kneecaps.” The defendant appears to have been affiliated with nudists and conspiracy theorists in the past.
@George-K said in I have no tolerance for this.:
30 years for an assault charge.
The neighbor of Sen. Rand Paul who in 2017 attacked the Kentucky Republican during a dispute about their yards was sentenced Monday to an additional eight months in prison for the assault.
Rene Boucher must also serve six months in home confinement, U.S. District Court Judge Matthew Leitman said Monday. Boucher will receive credit for the 30 days in prison he has already served.
Boucher had initially been sentenced to 30 days in jail for the attack, as well as 100 hours of community service and a $10,000 fine, but prosecutors said that sentence was too lenient and won the right to argue for a harsher sentence.
In a separate civil case, Boucher was also ordered to pay Paul more than $580,000 in damages.
Prosecutors were seeking a prison term of 21 to 27 months for Boucher.
During the virtual hearing, Paul, who suffered broken ribs in the November 2017 attack, said he flew 10 feet in the air from the force of the attack and was left with a “significant injury that I have lifelong symptoms from.”
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The dude copped to wanting to kidnap pelosi.
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@jon-nyc said in I have no tolerance for this.:
The dude copped to wanting to kidnap pelosi.
That was a 20 year sentence to run concurrently with the 30 year assault charge.
The three-decade sentence was handed down by U.S. district judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who ordered DePape to serve 20 years for an attempted kidnapping charge and 30 years for an assault charge. Both sentences will run simultaneously. DePape, who was convicted in November, has already served the first year and a half since he’s been in police custody.
IOW, other than from a legal perspective, the kidnapping charge to which he pled guilty is moot.
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Re: Pelosi, surprised there wasn’t an insanity plea.
