San Francisco Police Chief William Scott praised the quick-thinking dispatcher who sent police officers to the Pelosi home Friday, after the House speaker’s husband made a surreptitious 911 call.
“When you have an experienced dispatcher with good instincts, they learn how to read between the lines,” Scott told reporters.
The dispatcher in question got a call from Paul Pelosi, who managed to leave the line open while he confronted an intruder in his home.
Pelosi was talking in code, a law enforcement source told CNN earlier today, providing enough detail that the operator could understand something was wrong. At the same time, Pelosi tried not to make it evident that he had an open line.
“She knew something more was going on, just in her heart and her intuition, just with her experience,” Scott said. “And that calls for a higher priority than this type of call normally receives. This was a well-being check. And she just knew there was more to it. So she alerted our officers, she went that extra step … and that led to a quicker response.”
David DePape, the man suspected of attacking Paul Pelosi earlier Friday, is still being treated in the hospital, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said during a press conference this evening.
Scott did not elaborate on how DePape was hurt, but officers say they witnessed a struggle for control of a hammer between Pelosi and an intruder when they first arrived at the home.
While Scott did not discuss the suspect’s medical condition, he did tell reporters that DePape will be booked on felony charges.
“The suspect is still in the hospital, but let me say this: we intend to book the suspect, whether it’s in absentia or whether it’s in person — he will be booked for felony charges,” he said.
In an evening update, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott provided more details on the sequence of events in the attack on the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Scott said when officers arrived at the home they knocked on the front door and “the door was opened by someone inside,” though he didn’t clarify who that person was.
Officers then stood at the threshold and watched as Pelosi and another man struggled over control of a hammer. They shouted for both men to drop the weapon, but the intruder wrestled the weapon away and hit Pelosi in the head with it at least once, Scott said.
At that point, the officers ran in and tackled the man.
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