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Celerity

(48,765 posts)
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 09:12 AM Oct 2022

Suspect in Pelosi home attack: From pro-nudity activist to QAnon conspiracy theorist

David DePape moved from Canada to California where he made hemp jewelry, protested naked, later embraced pro-Trump and antisemitic conspiracies

https://www.timesofisrael.com/suspect-in-pelosi-home-attack-pro-nudity-activist-to-qanon-conspiracy-theorist/



AP — The man accused of breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s California home and severely beating her husband with a hammer appears to have made racist and often rambling posts online, including some that questioned the results of the 2020 election, defended former US president Donald Trump and echoed QAnon conspiracy theories.

David DePape, 42, grew up in the city of Powell River in British Columbia, Canada, before leaving about 20 years ago to follow an older girlfriend to San Francisco. A street address listed for DePape in the Bay Area college town of Berkeley led to a post office box at a UPS Store.

DePape was arrested at the Pelosi home early Friday. San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she expected to file multiple felony charges, including attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and elder abuse.

Stepfather Gene DePape said the suspect had lived with him in Canada until he was 14 and had been a quiet boy. “David was never violent that I seen and was never in any trouble although he was very reclusive and played too much video games,” Gene DePape said.

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What we know so far about the man who attacked Nancy Pelosi’s husband

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/28/paul-pelosi-nancy-pelosi-attack-david-depape
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Suspect in Pelosi home attack: From pro-nudity activist to QAnon conspiracy theorist (Original Post) Celerity Oct 2022 OP
What is that random uncaptioned photo supposed to be about? Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2022 #1
It's not uncaptioned at the link Celerity Oct 2022 #2
Homemade porno RainCaster Oct 2022 #4
another RW coward-bully llashram Oct 2022 #3

Celerity

(48,765 posts)
2. It's not uncaptioned at the link
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 09:23 AM
Oct 2022

David DePape, right, records the nude wedding of Gypsy Taub outside City Hall on Dec. 19, 2013, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

llashram

(6,269 posts)
3. another RW coward-bully
Sat Oct 29, 2022, 10:05 AM
Oct 2022

not worth his salt-- I pray he meets his match in the prison he's headed to.

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