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- An intruder shouted, “Where is Nancy?” after breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s residence.
- The intruder violently attacked Pelosi’s husband, Paul, with a hammer in entrance of cops.
- Paul Pelosi was hospitalized; Speaker Pelosi was in Washington, DC, with a security aspect.
It was a menacing question that rang via the Capitol on January 6, 2021: “Where is Nancy?”
In the months since a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, variations of that question have appeared in courtroom papers as federal prosecutors have accused rioters of threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and completely different lawmakers. In one case, prosecutors well-known any individual in the crowd who might very nicely be heard yelling, “Nancy…Nancy…We’re coming for you Nancy.”
“Where’s Nancy Pelosi?” requested one different Capitol rioter, David Antonio Ticas, who was sentenced to 2 weeks in jail after admitting to coming into the Capitol on January 6.
On Friday, an intruder launched that danger to Pelosi’s residence in San Francisco. Echoing the question of quite a lot of Capitol rioters on January 6, the intruder shouted, “Where is Nancy, where is Nancy?” as he confronted the House speaker’s husband, Paul, who was hospitalized following the violent assault.
In a press launch, the House speaker’s office talked about Paul Pelosi had suffered a fractured skull was receiving “excellent medical care and is expected to make a full recovery.” The House speaker was in Washington, DC, beneath the security of her security aspect at the time of the assault, her office talked about.
In the wave of virtually 900 prosecutions stemming from the January 6 assault, prosecutors have underscored the danger Speaker Pelosi confronted as one among the most distinguished targets — along with then-Vice President Mike Pence — of the pro-Trump mob.
During the first jury trial in a January 6 case, prosecutors known as to the stand a former member of the far-right Three Percenters militia, who recalled joking on the drive from Texas to Washington, DC, about dragging lawmakers out of the Capitol by their heels on January 6. Testifying in opposition to Capitol rioter Guy Reffitt, the witness significantly remembered joking about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s head hitting the stairs on the strategy out of the setting up.
“I didn’t think it was anything someone was going to act on,” the witness, Rocky Hardie, knowledgeable jurors. A jury found Reffitt accountable on all 5 prices he confronted in reference to the January 6 assault, and a select later sentenced him to higher than 7 years in jail.
In one different case, prosecutors talked about a St. Louis man, William Merry, roamed the Capitol on January 6 chanting, “Nancy, Nancy,” and on quite a lot of occasions known as the House speaker a “c**t.” Merry reached the speaker’s suite, the place he impressed his niece to decide on up a shard of Pelosi’s office sign.
The sign had been smashed by one different rioter, prosecutors talked about, “and then proudly displayed” on the grounds of the Capitol.
